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The Fermionic Version of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Sargent1 writes "According to Science magazine's web page, a group of physicists at Duke University have managed to cool fermions to the point that they may be seeing superfluidity in a fermi gas. If they are seeing fermionic superfluidity, their work is to fermions what Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) is to bosons, and the creation of BEC won some folks the Nobel prize in 2001. Beyond that, they've got the fermions interacting so strongly that they're a good analog of fermions in white dwarfs and neutron stars. This gives experimenters the chance to investigate neutron stars without having to have one parked out back in the lab."
...will any of this allow me to reverse the polarity of my deflector array, sending a tachyon pulse through subspace?
"Are you being weird, or sarcastic?" said Emma. I said I didn't know because I get the two feelings mixed up.