Comment Re:Next up... (Score 3, Informative) 71
Gizmodo should be retracting their writeup and slapping the writer for needless sensationalism. The supposed "refuting a well established theory in physics" isn't real - the theory in question is about stability of crystalline lattice structures. And the writeup itself is self-contradictory.
Beyond those temperatures, superheated gold is supposed to reach the so-called “entropy catastrophe”—or, in more colloquial terms, the heated gold should’ve blown up....To be fair, this superheated state lasted for a mere several trillionths of a second. Also, it blew up.