Physicists have come up with a new way to gaze longingly at some of the weirdest matter on Earth — the super-cold, super-calm gas called a Bose-Einstein condensate.

While scientists have been able to steal quick glimpses of the unusual gas, until now, simply snapping a picture of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) often destroyed it by adding extra energy from light.

Via their model, the researchers have devised a filter that removes the heating effect and feeds the extra energy back into the magnetic coils used to trap and chill the condensate, which will help keep the atoms cooled for longer periods. Now, when inquisitive viewers want to watch the atoms sit around, such picture-snapping would send more energy into the chill-inducing coils, actually making the condensate even colder.

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Provided for the question this method could be amplified to absorb the heat produced within the masses of the gas giants, what form would Jupiter/Saturn’s etc. weather assume, were they reduced in temperature to a bose-einstein condensate?

> until now, simply snapping a picture of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) often destroyed it by adding extra energy from light.

The standard way of looking at a Bose-Einstein condensate is to illuminate it with a pulse of lase light. Because you can do a large number of interesting things with laser light, vary energy, vary pulse duration down to attoseconds, vary polarisation plane or circular, looking at successive images of how the laser light moves and changes the BEC have been very illuminating.

mollwollfumble said:

… images of how the laser light moves and changes the BEC have been very illuminating.

boom boom.

Punny. Very punny. :)

Bugger. 41 seconds. :(

Riff-in-Thyme said:

Provided for the question this method could be amplified to absorb the heat produced within the masses of the gas giants, what form would Jupiter/Saturn’s etc. weather assume, were they reduced in temperature to a bose-einstein condensate?

I assume in this state the only forces working on the particles making up each mass would be gravity and the forces binding the atoms?

What is the velocity of an electron bound to an atom in a BEC?

Riff-in-Thyme said:

What is the velocity of an electron bound to an atom in a BEC?

I ask this in order to identify whether this state is the result of the electron/proton bonds having achieved an approximation of velocities that is analogous to the electron being entangled with it’s bonded proton through their spin boundaries being aligned……

If a quantity of BEC H were to be introduced to our atmosphere, exactly how explosively would it rebalance with the environment?