{"id":14429,"date":"2013-12-12T05:34:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14429"},"modified":"2013-12-12T05:34:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:34:47","slug":"you-usually-dont-get-condensation-when-its-this-warm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14429","title":{"rendered":"You Usually Don&#039;t Get Condensation When it&#039;s This Warm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/nanoclast\/semiconductors\/materials\/bose-einstein-condensate-made-at-room-temperature-for-first-time\">Bose-Einstein Condensate Made at Room Temperature for First Time<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[R]esearchers at IBM\u2019s Binnig and Rohrer Nano Center have been able to achieve the BEC at room temperature using a specially developed polymer, a laser, and some mirrors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds vaguely McGuyver-ish. I&#8217;m sure duct tape was involved somewhere. Duct tape is always involved.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m not sure how this is useful yet, given that the BEC only lasts for a few picoseconds. Atom laser and optical switch sound like boiler-plate responses. (Similar to how other atomic physics efforts are hyped to be great for making new types of atomic clocks, but that rarely ends up happening) I would be interested in knowing how they determined that they had a BEC in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bose-Einstein Condensate Made at Room Temperature for First Time [R]esearchers at IBM\u2019s Binnig and Rohrer Nano Center have been able to achieve the BEC at room temperature using a specially developed polymer, a laser, and some mirrors. Sounds vaguely McGuyver-ish. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}