Cool - literally

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » September 23, 2003, 5:41 pm

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994164

The coolest thing in the Universe is now a cloud of sodium atoms in a laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Physicists from the MIT-Harvard Centre for Ultra-Cold atoms have chilled 2500 sodium atoms to within half a billionth of a degree of absolute zero, the temperature at which atomic oscillation slows to a standstill.

Pahreyia · Post by **Pahreyia** » September 23, 2003, 6:05 pm

... Uhm.... Cool.