The Quest to Make Super Cold Quantum Blobs in Space
The Quest to Make Super Cold Quantum Blobs in Space
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
June 25, 20186m 30s
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Show Notes
On a frigid day last January in northern Sweden, a German-led team of physicists loaded a curious machine onto an unmanned rocket. The payload, about as tall as a single-story apartment, was essentially a custom-made freezer—a vacuum chamber, with a small chip and lasers within, that could cool single atoms near absolute zero. They launched the rocket about 90 miles past the boundary of outer space, monitoring a livestream from a heated building nearby.
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