Comment Been done before (Score 1, Interesting) 169
There is a PBS special called Absolute Zero that shows this.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/atoms.html
This is about the only way to create a Bose-Einstein condensate
Comment Superinsulation? (Score 0) 3
Does this mean they have found the mirror opposite to the Bose-Einstein Condensate? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/program.html
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