I think I’ve had one of them quantum splinters before. Nasty buggers.
Is there any practical application other than appeals for more grant money?
BECs are about where lasers were in maybe 1970. They are one of the many scientific breakthroughs that will have a tortuous path to practical application, but it will happen eventually.
And when they get to that point, the results will be as incredible to people at that time as the CD-ROM, fiber optics, terabyte communication channels, 3D printing, and all the rest have been to our generation.
It took about 50 years between the first indication of the interesting things that govern the flow of electric charge through large crystal structures and the development of the first integrated circuits. The strange phenomena that caught the imagination of those who explored the behavior of galena crystals as AM RF demodulators back in the 1920s led to the transistor, the IC chip, the semiconductor laser, the microprocessor, the internet, and a changed world.
BECs and some of the other way-out things that are developing in physics and chemistry are going to push society in unimaginable directions.
Link that with breakthroughs in genetics and computer science, and the world of Kirk, Spock and Bones is not far off.
This experiment confirms that quantum fluctuations are truly random.
Potentially, quantum computers will be able to produce real random numbers.
Feynman diagrams.
Thanks as always for posting.
You won’t like this, but the only splinters I am interested in are those I remove with a needle from my fingers.
“Lode said the variation in the granulation experiments arose from quantum correlations—complicated relationships”
Young the Giant wrote the solution to this dilemma:
“Why don’t we rely on chemistry? Why don’t we collide the spaces that divide us?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxJhrwyn0M4
Probably figured this out while waiting for the cough syrup to go down.
I am thinking that the necessity to cool something below 2 Kelvins is going to be a serious practical limitation.
Where you been, boy? That is OK, new to me too.
Yeah, I get all this, but why are we on Daylight Savings Time.
Various splinter groups are just stringing us along with speculations in order to qualify for grants. What a bunch of bozons!/s
“Matter waves and quantum splinters: Physicists shatter Bose-Einstein condensate, get different pieces every time”
T repeat a question...U no, chicken or egg stuff///
Which came first?? MATTER or SPACE ?
Do you ever notice strange little things like this in articles?
Nguyen at Rice found grains...
Reminds me of an article floating around here some years back where there was a Dr Zwiebel doing odor research.
Closest I ever came in real life was meeting a network engineer named Lan.