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Exploring Superstrings in the Lab
ultracool writes "Physicists at Utrecht University in the Netherlands have come up with a way of observing a superstring by utilizing Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). A one-dimensional BEC in an optical lattice is rapidly rotated, causing a quantized vortex to form. The bosonic part of the superstring consists of this vortex line. Inside the vortex, they would trap an ultracold cloud of fermionic atoms. Hopefully this will allow observation of the supersymmetry between bosons and fermions, thus providing the first experimental evidence to support superstring theory."
If you're really a physicist, make yourself useful and tell me when I can expect my quantum entanglement wireless transcievers, and what kind of bandwidth we're likely to see with first generation technology.
I'd rather it be over my head than below me.