[lit-ideas] Re: Is it just me? (Ain't we got fun)
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:39:18 -0500
>>The Official Canadian Temperature Conversion Chart
This from MIT, about three years ago:
MIT team achieves coldest temperature ever
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT scientists have cooled a sodium gas to the
lowest temperature ever recorded -- only half-a-billionth of a degree
above absolute zero. The work, to be reported in the Sept. 12 issue of
Science, bests the previous record by a factor of six, and is the first
time that a gas was cooled below 1 nanokelvin (one-billionth of a degree).
"To go below one nanokelvin is a little like running a mile under four
minutes for the first time," said Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle,
co-leader of the team. Ketterle is MIT's John D. MacArthur Professor of
Physics.
"Ultra-low temperature gases could lead to vast improvements in
precision measurements by allowing better atomic clocks and sensors for
gravity and rotation," said David E. Pritchard, a pioneer in atom optics
and atom interferometry and co-leader of the MIT group. He is the Cecil
and Ida B. Green Professor of Physics.
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