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German Scientists Create Bose-Einstein Condensate Using Photons

Posted by Soulskill on from the keep-this-discovery-away-from-sharks dept.

xt writes "A team of physicists, led by the University of Bonn's Martin Weitz, have managed to create a Bose-Einstein condensate (here's a more detailed explanation) out of photons, previously thought to be impossible. The research was published in the journal Nature (abstract, and the arXiv has the submitted paper as a PDF) and has possible applications on solar energy technology and shortwave lasers, which would be well-suited to the manufacture of computer chips as the process uses lasers to etch logic circuits onto semiconductor materials. Seems like Moore's law is safe again!"

2 of 61 comments (clear)

  1. Re:F1RST P0ST! by hosecoat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Rubidium is the best element name i've ever heard

  2. Re:F1RST P0ST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Better than krypton, xenon, titanium, technecium, or unununium (sounds like a Phil Collins paradody)?