You put on some thin gloves that insulate from absolute zero temperatures but allow you to feel texture, you then dip your hand into a bowl full of absolute zero neon. What would it feel like?
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Anonymous2008-03-08 2:16
Helium will not freeze without an extremely low temperature. Therefore in addition to needing protection against extreme cold, you would also need a pressure suit in order to be able to touch solid Helium. Another problem with touching solid Helium is that even the slightest input of energy would put it back into the liquid phase, so the suit would have to be an excellent insulator. Finally, it would be difficult to determine when the Helium actually froze because liquid Helium and solid Helium look almost identical.
Now, onto what it would feel like if you actually could touch it. It would be an extremely slippery solid due to the repulsion from the many electron pairs. It would also be "squishy" as solid Helium is compressible.