The Wall-Climbing Liquid

What you read here is not just a figment of imagination. Nature abounds in fascinating phenomena, in outlandishly bizarre behaviors. We certainly live in a very imaginative place, in an unpredictable and poetic universe. Take, for instance, the surreal quantum liquid of superfluid helium. Now imagine that you put some of this strange liquid in a beaker. Well, the fact is that superfluid helium is not your ordinary liquid. This incongruous fluid is sort of a dry water, it has no viscosity and flows with absolutely zero friction. If you leave it undisturbed in the beaker, your quantum liquid will perform an incredible miracle. For the superfluid helium will spontaneously glide out of the container in a thin film and it will climb over the walls. It appears to defy completely gravity and it can pass through even microscopic holes.