First 'Atomic Air Force' Observed

SeaDour writes "From the National Institute of Standards and Technology (the people who brought you the atomic clock) and the Unviersity of Colorado at Boulder (location of the world's first Bose-Einstein Condensate and Fermionic Condensate) comes the world's first observation of atoms "flying in formation". Atoms are normally expected to fly around through empty space quite haphazardly, constantly colliding with one another. But thanks to precision laser pulses and extremely cold temperatures, Jun Ye's team was able to correograph strontium atoms into the shape of a cube as they travelled across a vacuum chamber. "This 'really bizarre' behavior is believed to occur with all atoms under similar conditions.""

Comments

"Correograph"?

[RandomCoil]

Good grief, the word's even used (and spelled correctly) in the article!

Not that the master editors at Slashdot would concern themselves with spelling. Yeah, I'm talking to you Timothy! :P

Re:"Correograph"?

[rickbrodie]

Surely the correct usage and spelling in the summary would be more of an achievement? What with the recent(ly more obvious) trend of the submitter not even reading the linked article and all.