supervast

— His 5-minute improvised demonstration, during which he produced a metal ribbon without a crystal structure from molten steel by supervast cooling (at the rate of 5,000,000 degrees per second), has not been successful this time. The snake-like ribbon that is thinner than a hair has burned to ashes at the end of the experiment, as if it were saying to its creator: This is how inventors' dreams are turned into nothing.