[lit-ideas] Re: Is it just me? (Ain't we got fun)
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:24:27 EST
I like "nanoklevin". As in, "I'll be there in a nanoklevin", as opposed to
"I'll be there in a split second". (In a sec., In two shakes of a lamb's
tail, ASAP.....)
Always looking for new ways to use words (or am I simply Humpty Dumpty (whom
my Minnesota-raised husband pronounces "Humpity Dumpity", always garnering a
giggle from me.)
Julie Krueger
(looking up interferometry now)
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(Ain't we got fun) Date: 1/19/2007 12:39:05 A.M. Central Standard Time From:
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>>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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