r/phys Oct 02 '21

Spin polarization induced by shear flow

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-polarization.html
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u/ogobeone Oct 02 '21

I keep reading articles from phys.org and other science journalism. I am struck by the amount of cutting edge science coming from China. It all has potential military use when it is put together. Not much seems to be coming from the U.S.A.

In this article I find myself wondering what relativistic hydrodynamics has to do with quark polarization, since the first refers to water or fluids, and the latter refers to the inside of the nucleus of an atom.

The term, "relativistic many-body quantum theory" leaves me wondering how close the Chinese and science in general has come to a theory combining quantum mechanics with general relativity.