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Scientists Set New Coldest Temperature Record

Posted by michael on Friday September 12, 2003 @02:31AM from the wear-your-mittens dept.

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."

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Overclockers ? by $exyNerdie · 2003-09-12 02:43 · Score: 4, Insightful

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 /. editors ??