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Quantum Gas Goes Below Absolute Zero
First time accepted submitter mromanuk writes in with a story about scientists at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich who have created an atomic gas that goes below absolute zero. "It may sound less likely than hell freezing over, but physicists have created an atomic gas with a sub-absolute-zero temperature for the first time. Their technique opens the door to generating negative-Kelvin materials and new quantum devices, and it could even help to solve a cosmological mystery."
So, temperature uses unsigned floats?
"Technically correct" is the best kind of correct.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Epic fail. Every Jedi knight builds his own light sabre. What the galaxy is coming to now a days, aspiring jedi knights nonchalantly ordering their light sabre by mail order... What next? Subject verb object order Yoda learns?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Sadly, our universe runs on a quite old hardware, which allowed the scientists to overflow the temperature variable. Why the Great Programmer didn't use unsigned longs ist beyond me, rookie mistake, really!
It's the previously unquantifiable temperature of a McDonald's Apple Pie.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
The Doctor seems to be doing quite well for his age.
Doctor Who?