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Scientists Using Lasers To Cool Molecules
An anonymous reader writes "Ever since audiences heard Goldfinger utter the famous line, 'No, Mr. Bond; I expect you to die,' as a laser beam inched its way toward James Bond and threatened to cut him in half, lasers have been thought of as white-hot beams of intensely focused energy capable of burning through anything in their path. Now a team of Yale physicists has used lasers for a completely different purpose, employing them to cool molecules down to temperatures near absolute zero, about -460 degrees Fahrenheit. Their new method for laser cooling, described in the online edition of the journal Nature, is a significant step toward the ultimate goal of using individual molecules as information bits in quantum computing."
-460 degrees Fahrenheit
Celsius, metric system, superior, catch up with the world, gay, Hitler, etc.
Who the hell uses Fahrenheit for anything remotely connected to science?
Backward nations. Specifically, Burma, Liberia and the USA.