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...such cold temperatures the atoms’ motions are virtually halted, and they begin to behave more like waves than particles. Featured in the Feb. 8 issue of Nature, the study showed that once a laser pulse is shot into one sodium cloud—known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—it is signficantly compressed and deccelerated. “The light pulse is slowed from 186,000 miles per second to 15 miles per hour, and is also spatially compressed from 1 kilometer to less than half the width of a hair...
...film business. In his book Hollywood Economics, economist Arthur De Vany analyzed 2,015 movies to determine what succeeds and what fails. The answer, best summarized by screenwriter William Goldman, is that "nobody knows anything." What De Vany did learn is that moviegoers behave according to the principles of Bose-Einstein condensation--a fancy way of saying they are more likely to go to a movie if they receive an "authentic signal" that other people have enjoyed it. Before a movie opens, studios can generate inauthentic signals by securing a star and advertising heavily, creating the impression of a phenomenon...
...since the colder atoms become, the more they draw warmth from anything in the vicinity--often from one another. In 1995, however, a team led by physicists Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell of the University of Colorado at Boulder used lasers and evaporation to achieve something known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, a supercold gas in which atoms overlap and begin to move in synchrony. "We get to within a billionth of a degree of absolute zero," says Wieman...
...became interested in slowing down light and Bose-Einstein condensates in the late 1980s, while a graduate student at the University of Aarhus in Denmark...
...process involves supercooling sodium until it becomes a "Bose-Einstein condensate," and then using quantum interference to slow the light as it passes through the condensate...