On February 19, 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent the internet into a frenzy with a tweet that hinted at something revolutionary. He stated that our understanding of the states of matter was about to change forever. Was this just hype, or was there something real behind it?
Microsoft claimed to have created a fourth state of matter, completely changing our understanding of the physical world. Forget everything you thought you knew because the rules have changed. Microsoft’s Quantum division had achieved something that once seemed impossible after two decades, 7,305 days, 412 failed prototypes, and a warehouse fire.
The initial announcement came in the form of a 20-minute video. Nadella followed up with a tweet emphasizing the shift in our understanding of matter, moving beyond solid, liquid, and gas.
Microsoft calls this new state of matter a “topological conductor”. This isn’t plasma or a Bose-Einstein condensate. It’s something entirely new. It’s a material that not only conducts electricity but also “shapes reality” as it does so.
The video showed a silver-black substance that flows like liquid mercury but holds its shape like titanium. When a current was applied, the material twisted into perfect geometric spirals without any external magnetic fields or triggers.
Microsoft’s CTO called this the “missing link for fault-tolerant Quantum Computing.” Could this glowing substance be the key to creating quantum computers that are practical, scalable, and unbreakable? For now, they’re calling it iPhone.
This isn’t just another incremental improvement; it’s a fundamental shift in our understanding of physics, like Newton’s apple falling and changing everything.
Remember Mrs. Thompson’s science class with the ice, water, and steam? We built civilizations on that “lie”. But the truth is that the three states of matter are incomplete. It’s like describing Earth as just a rock.
For over a century, physicists have talked about exotic states of matter, such as plasma, Bose-Einstein condensates, and time crystals. However, these states were confined to specialized labs or extreme conditions. Microsoft’s breakthrough isn’t just adding a fourth state; it’s “burning the table.”
Topological conductors aren’t just a new state; they’re matter with memory. They adapt and remember their shape.
Think of Play-Doh. Squish it, and it stays squished. Now imagine Play-Doh that remembers every shape it has ever been. That’s topology.
The structure of these materials isn’t just physical; it’s mathematical. Carve a topological conductor into a doughnut, and even if you shred it to dust, its quantum shape persists.
These materials act back. Microsoft’s demo showed a wire that heals its own fractures mid-circuit and a material that learns to conduct heat 10,000 times faster after a single laser pulse. It’s “Alchemy with a patent.”
This fourth state was always here, hidden in plain sight, in the way spider silk self-assembles and in the quantum spin of electrons. We just didn’t have the math or the understanding to see it. For further insights into the implications of such a breakthrough, check out this related video on YouTube.
This discovery is so significant that a Princeton physicist tweeted, “This isn’t a new state of matter; it’s a new law of physics.” Topological conductors are the key to a reality we’ve never been allowed to see.
For decades, quantum computing has been held back by the fragility of qubits. These quantum bits would die if you looked at them wrong. But topological conductors don’t need stability; they create it.
Normal materials are like sandcastles; touch them, and they crumble. Topological conductors are like ant colonies; destroy a tunnel, and the colony reroutes. Topology isn’t about what something is but how it’s connected.
Imagine a wire frayed by acid healing itself mid-experiment or a chip that optimizes after being bombarded with radiation. These materials are topologically protected. Their structure is encoded into every atom. These materials thrive in chaos. They’re not just stable; they’re anti-fragile.
Why is Microsoft the first to achieve this breakthrough? It’s a “math victory.” A decade ago, a reclusive Russian mathematician published a paper on electric braiding. Microsoft bought his patents for $2.1 million in 2019. That math is now the foundation of their Quantum Empire.
For 13.8 billion years, matter followed the same three rules. Now, Microsoft has given it a fourth. Quantum computing has gone from a pipe dream to a potential weapon, and Microsoft is holding the trigger.
Quantum computers were always possible, but keeping them alive was the issue. Qubits are easily disrupted. Google’s 2019 breakthrough involved 53 qubits that died in microseconds.
Microsoft showed a quantum chip running, and thriving, at room temperature. They poured liquid nitrogen on it and zapped it with a taser. The cubits didn̵t just survive; they multiplied. Topological materials don’t fight chaos; they consume it.
Traditional encryption methods are vulnerable to quantum computers. Microsoft’s “Event Horizon” protocol involves data disappearing into the material’s quantum structure, with no key or backdoor.
Nadella tweeted that this breakthrough isn’t about computing; it’s about trust. Topological quantum computers provide irrefutable proof of solutions.
Microsoft has surpassed Google and IBM. Topological cubits aren’t just better; they’re “alien.” Microsoft is selling time on these systems.
Microsoft’s 20-year head start is “written into the fabric of these materials.” Their 2014 patent covers the core process. The US Department of Energy’s $5 billion Quantum Foundry in Washington state is a sign of things to come.
The chapter on states of matter will be reduced to a “primitive 20th-century model.” Topological conductors prove that matter has layers we never dared peel.
Newton gave us calculus and gravity; Mendeleev gave us the periodic table Nadella just gave us “living matter.” Topological materials don’t just exist; they persist.
Water freezes at 0 degrees C because its atoms agree. Topological conductors’ atoms argue, revealing something older than physics, something that looks suspiciously like choice. Skeptics will say it’s just a new material, but so was fire, bronze, and silicon.
We’ve just been handed a chisel to reshape existence. The next decade will be about surrendering to its logic. The day the periodic table grew a new dimension, the day matter woke up, and the day we stopped being the smartest thing on Earth.
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