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."

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Re:better explanation

[BitZtream]

It seems to me to be a retarded description, like calling infinity + 1 a negative number.

They need to use a proper name for it, not something that only makes sense if your the kind of person that likes to say things in such a way that no one else understands what you mean just so you can claim its technically correct with a smug attitude.

Re:better explanation

[Anonymous Coward]

> the absence of punctuation is condemnable (and you're guilty of it too)

Would you believe I was aiming for ironic but, for the sake of readability, left it a bit too short to be effective?

While I'm here, I also forgot to mention the GP's hypocritically smug sense of "I dun need no fancy book lernin'" reverse snobbishness against anyone who seems to know more than he does in a given field which also is also probably a bit too long to go without a comma but isn't technically a run-on sentence until I add this bit here on the end of it.