Supercritical BS

There is nothing to get…

A supercritical fluid is a dense gas which has enough short range molecular interactions to be a solvent.

Most lay scientists accept stuff like this simply because they are familiar with it – that is, it is ‘knowledge’.

A higher level of ‘understanding’ is an abstraction, via linear thinking, to another level of ‘knowledge’ (e.g. in the case of a supercritical fluid, a thermodynamic model of the molecular interactions).

But there are always more levels one can go to, e.g. statistical thermodynamic model, or a quantum level approach.

But by going to these deeper levels all one is doing is taking the mystery to another level where one simply have to accept another bunch of assumptions as truths.

There is no end point

Therefore its easier to think of it in the Newtonian scale – i.e. a supercritical fluid is a dense gas which has enough short range interactions to be a solvent.