NASA to experiment with "atomic refridgerator" on ISS

Raoul Duke · Mar 4, 2015

I don't know why or even claim to have even the most rudimentary understanding of the science here, but I think this is pretty cool(pun intended):

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/30jan_coldspot/

dennishoddy · Mar 4, 2015

Very cool. The guys in the shop I worked at had fun with liquid nitrogen, but this is twice as cold.

aviator41 · Mar 4, 2015

How nerdy am I? I've been following this project since it was funded. The Bose-Einstein conedensate was so far fetched that even quantum theorists dismsissed them until the Higgs-Boson particle was confirmed. The physics world was, essentially turned on it's head and incredible new era is opening up. Einstein would be both pleased as punch and blown away at the same time.

Cool stuff.

71buickfreak · Mar 4, 2015

aviator41 said:
How nerdy am I? I've been following this project since it was funded. The Bose-Einstein conedensate was so far fetched that even quantum theorists dismsissed them until the Higgs-Boson particle was confirmed. The physics world was, essentially turned on it's head and incredible new era is opening up. Einstein would be both pleased as punch and blown away at the same time.

Cool stuff.

I think he would be pretty damn old.

RETOKSQUID · Mar 4, 2015

Interesting. Got to admit the first time I saw the thread, I thought it said NASA to experiment with "atomic refrigerator" on ISIS.

Lakenut · Mar 5, 2015

Me too...

Larry Morgan · Mar 5, 2015

aviator41 said:
How nerdy am I? I've been following this project since it was funded. The Bose-Einstein conedensate was so far fetched that even quantum theorists dismsissed them until the Higgs-Boson particle was confirmed. The physics world was, essentially turned on it's head and incredible new era is opening up. Einstein would be both pleased as punch and blown away at the same time.

Cool stuff.

The BEC was produced independently in two different places around 1995, quite a bit before the Higgs-Boson is thought to be confirmed. BEC like properties (in helium) were observed as far back as 1938 even though they had no idea what they were seeing.

I still love to see that every time they think they've punched a hole in Einstein's theory of relativity, they actually haven't. Usually it comes in the form of thinking they've found something traveling faster than the speed of light.

When I first saw the applications of relativity, I was forever in awe. GPS must account for time dilation. While doing calculations for semiconductors, the apparent mass of the electrons becomes dependent on their velocity.

nofearfactor · Mar 5, 2015

Another nerd checking in. Love physics. This is exciting...

cptnhowdy138 · Mar 5, 2015

I thought it said isis also

Raoul Duke · Mar 5, 2015

RETOKSQUID said:
NASA to experiment with "atomic refrigerator" on ISIS.

^^^I'm OK with this!!!^^^

ISIS reduced to super frozen, sub-atomic, macroscopic, waves and particles sounds like one hell of good idea to me.

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