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That combination of economic engagement with North Korea and "zero tolerance of military provocation" from the communist country "makes a lot of sense," he said...
...FINAL THEORY OF EVERYTHING? WILL WE FIGURE OUT HOW LIFE BEGAN? WILL WE CLONE A DINOSAUR? WILL WE KEEP EVOLVING? WILL ANYONE EVER RUN A 3-MINUTE MILE? WILL WE CONTROL THE WEATHER? CAN WE SAVE CALIFORNIA? WILL WE EVER TRAVEL AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT? ...REACH ABSOLUTE ZERO? ...GET RID OF COCKROACHES? WILL THERE BE ANYTHING LEFT TO DISCOVER...
...whole, the laws of physics don't like to be fooled with. Nature has pretty strict rules, not just about how fast objects can move but also about how cold they can get. Scientists know temperatures can drop only so far before absolute zero--the bitter rock bottom of physics' thermometer--stops them from cooling any further. On the way down toward the absolute-zero mark, however, remarkable things can happen...
...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...
...place are easy to observe and manipulate, providing a clearer than ever look at how things behave at the subatomic, or quantum, state. Down the line, such precise control may make it easier to design better atomic clocks or fabricate submicroscopic nanocomponents and other vanishingly tiny machines. Absolute zero might be an impossibility, but for scientists who have spent their careers trying to drive the thermometer down, the deep freeze they've already achieved might be more than deep enough...