[Texaggie79]

ping

[Fractal Trader]

Way cool post and pics!

[altair]

Ketterle created BECs in his lab by cooling a gas made of sodium atoms to a few hundred billionths of a degree above absolute zero

Cool! How do you get temperatures that low? I know about using a mixture of Helium-3 and Helium-4, but it sounds like they're using a different technique here.

[HairOfTheDog]

Is this new Matter Forum going to be between "General Interest" and "News/Activism"?

[monkeyshine]

Cool story. "absolute zero" cool!

[wafflehouse]

great post
bttt

[TxBec]

Geez, I gotta bookmark this one (grin)

[TxBec]

BECs are real and Einstein was right. They are strange. (ahem) :)

[realpatriot71]

I have a condensate in my car. It keeps making a mess. If I have to tell to one more time not to eat french fries in the car, I'm going to shut off it's magnetic field and laser and turn it into a solid. I really cannot deal with this anymore . . .

[techcor]

Okay I'm bumping so I can find later but you should really do up a tech list or there should be a forum.

[techcor]

Actually I already knew about this. That's what I get for bumping before reading. There is also a lesser know new matter which is Fermion-Bose condensates . Hmm or maybe it was Einstein-Fermion condensates. Same thing as the other but the nucleus's have an extra neutron which causes it to act different.