Nobel Prize In Physics For Bose-Einstein Condensate

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 9, 2001 @06:33AM from the get-to-meet-the-king dept.

LMCBoy writes "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics today. The award went to scientists who managed to construct a Bose-Einstein condensate from Rubidium and Sodium atoms. The process involves cooling the atoms to about 20 nanoKelvin. From the press release: 'A laser beam differs from the light from an ordinary light bulb in several ways. In the laser the light particles all have the same energy and oscillate together. To cause matter also to behave in this controlled way has long been a challenge for researchers. This year's Nobel Laureates have succeeded - they have caused atoms to "sing in unison" - thus discovering a new state of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate.'" This is the same reasearch that Hemos recently posted about.

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Now that's cool by Winged+Cat · 2001-10-09 06:47 · Score: 1, Troll

And I don't just mean what you can do with it. ;)
Clone Einstein by Aurelfell · 2001-10-09 06:53 · Score: 1, Troll

We should make a clone of Einstein. All most every physicist in the last 50 years has used his work as a basis. If we made a few dozen more of him, think of the technology we could have in another fifty years.