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Scientists Set New Coldest Temperature Record
one_who_uses_unix writes "Scientists recently successfully cooled a gas to the coldest temperature ever recorded ABC News reports. This is good news for proponents of basic research (read non-applied) which has seen shrinking budgets over the past few decades, and for overclockers hoping to squeeze 1 more cycle out of their CPUs."
and for overclockers hoping to squeeze 1 more cycle out of their CPUs
How does such a low temperature help in overclocking ?
Article says:
"At less than 1 nanokelvin, the atoms screech to a crawl, moving only one inch every 30 seconds. "
Does anyone else also think that "overclocking" was mentioned just to get attention of
It is quite likely that Heisenburg doesn't apply. When you look at extreme conditions you sometimes discover things about the universe you cound't see otherwise. Look at Newton's "Laws" regarding motion. When you look at things accelerating to extremely high speeds these laws turn out to be very wrong.
They do these sort of things to try to disprove laws, or rather amend them to more accurately represent the universe.
Not sure but was wondering wouldn't this be a kind of exception to Heizenberg since absolute zero is the state of no movement then it would seem you would lose the uncertainty in location because that wasn't changing.