Soliton Wave in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

[bdabeast05]

now i want toast

[mauvewolf]

"i think i can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics" r feynman

[freemanx2x]

@mauvewolf this is only because we do not accept the aether,...and just because is not like we would like it to be...

[BlockisticStudios]

This makes me wish I understood quantum mechanics. ;_;

[gregthess]

'Soliton' is the real reason for TSOUNAMI

[sowyandclopsey]

greeeeeat.

[illeatu2]

how does BEC decay? slowly as individual atoms regain identity and does the mass take form? sounds like an interesting way to store energy?

[Evi1M4chine]

well, to create one, you have to hold it in a laser trap and massively cool it down. as soon as you stop that, it gets back to normal particles. so it can by definition not decay. (then it would not be a BEC)

i can not even imagine, how you would actually *store* energy in it. (cold = low energy)

[Thomas2680]

The most amazing quality of BEC is the ability to freeze the speed of light , from over 186,000 miles per second, to less than 10 miles per hour. And then to reanimate the speed of light to previous levels by removing the BEC complex. It would be theoretical than to suppose time travel through the matrix processes. Einstein was more accurate in his theory of relativity than ever imagined.

Terrible Tom--Green Bay

[Jarrkha]

Actually, the BEC (with the same property you mention) would be more practical as a new data storage medium -- possibly the replacement of the magnetic hard disk. Not only does it "freeze" the speed of light it also freezes the photon configuration before they hit atoms in the BEC when light passes through the BEC; when photons exit the BEC, it is in the initial state.

[DrWinstonRelthford]

There's no reason the BEC could make time travel possible.

[jrp989]

kind of looks like the wormhole opening on stargate...lol. I wonder what would happen if this condensate interacted with a high temp plasma.

[morlockman]

I've wondered something similar to that myself. Like what would happen if you fired a particle from a particle accelerator into the center of mass.

Could be messy.

[morlockman]

Like a near irresistable force hitting an almost completely unmoving object.

Although to get any sort of stablity you'd have to majorly increase the magnetic confinement of the condensate.

[NecrosisOfLight]

I'm generally inclined to think "Boom".

[morlockman]

Same here.

If collisions in a particle accelerator produce a nominal amount of annihilation into energy, and the condensate undergoes the same disintergration, I'd imagine something equivalent to a matter-antimatter annihilation. Condensates in the lab usually on only have a few thousand atoms in it, but if the apparatus could be scaled up to near molar quantities, you'd be looking at enough energy to move Earth from it's orbit.

Anyone wanna build an Annihilatrix?

[NecrosisOfLight]

Are you proposing we construct an atom smasher that can accelerate molecules to a percentage of C, then fling them at hyper-low energy systems in the hopes of triggering near-perfect energy conversion?

Because if so I support this plan entirely

[morlockman]

Ya... that's about right.

[misteratoz]

Really? I personally doubt it would be outstanding. Something like perhaps dropping a bowl of liquid nitrogen into a lava pit. Anti-matter reactions on the other hand would indeed make a very powerful boom.

[dantehunter]

Heck I'm in XD

[Dm0n3y94]

how come schools only teach you 4 states of matter solid liquid gas and plasma?

[boo453]

hey my school only taught 3 (though I'm doing A level chemistry and physics, i'm sure i'll find out about plasma eventually)

and in answer to your question... it was made in 1995

[ErrYeahNF]

Some of my teachers weren't even aware it existed, I was rather disappointed. Rather sad it takes 13+ years for something so incredible to reach the normal education system. If you ask a peer what the five states of matter are, some can't even name up to plasma!

[mikeytheaznking]

cus condesate were only found possible recently by laser cooling

[Johnz414]

It's also easy reading for getting a hold of and an understanding of the phenomena.

[Johnz414]

"Taming Gravity" in Popular Mechanics Oct 1999 issue is a good place to start reading up on Dr. Ning Li and her A/C Gravity to see how we're beginning to apply the Bose Einstein Condensate phenomena to technology.

[ErrYeahNF]

Weren't they trying to make a computer with it? I only heard a little about it, it was suppose to process all code simultaneously. Rather interesting.

[Fazmatic1JP]

sweet, i wounder if the

[corneliaomir]

hmm i don't gt it. I've been studying bose ideal gases, and fermi ideal gases, but only theory, so.. errm what is that?!

[morlockman]

a condensate? currently requires a temperature of near absolute zero to produce in a lab.

[davemurkel]

WOW. EXCELLENT. MORE PLEASE.

[seneca67]

It reminds me of the vortex lattice formation in super fluid liquid helium. Thank you for sharing this video.

[morlockman]

It's not my video... I just found it online and thought it was worth sharing.

[morlockman]

I had a ton of theories on what's going in the Condensate... but I don't have a degree. :p