In a new study, physicist Alessio Zaccone has discovered that Einstein’s theory of relativity affects the behavior of liquids. This “liquid thickening” phenomenon is described in a paper published in Physical Review E, which details a microscopic model of viscosity that takes relativistic conditions into account.
Zaccone’s theory shows how the viscosity of a fluid can change at speeds close to the speed of light, using a framework that combines relativistic equations with current theories of particle motion. This groundbreaking research could help bridge the gap between relativistic hydrodynamics and classical fluid dynamics and may even point to the need for a new fundamental law of physics.
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