Bryan O. '07 | June 22, 2005
""This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.""
So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to restart. When I restarted my browser, I was at my homepage where I was pleasantly surprised to find some breaking news.
While attempting to understand the fundamental physics behind this discovery would probably be challenging for me right now, I think it's pretty awesome that these students and faculty could make such an awesome breakthrough. Wolfgang Ketterle, a faculty member, is actually one MIT's Nobel Laureates. He won the Nobel along with two other MIT alumni a few years back.
From the MIT News Office:
MIT physicists create new form of matterJune 22, 2005
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT scientists have brought a supercool end to a heated race among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity.
For the full article about the physics breakthrough, click here.
For all you out there interested in learning about some other cool physics research projects, here's a link for more info about Professor Ketterle's Lab and Research Group as well.
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hey! What a nice blog! I just found urs from Mitra's blog.. The superfluid thingy is awesome :)
Posted by: Saad Zaheer on June 23, 2005 01:46 AM
hey brian!
i jus found your blog thru mitra's too! :)
jus wanted to say HI!
see you this fall! :)
Posted by: Laila Shabir on June 23, 2005 07:38 PM
So pretty much what you're saying is that physics at MIT rules. :)
Posted by: D-Baby on June 25, 2005 11:13 AM
Hey Saad and Laila,
Thanks for visiting. Make sure you bookmark me =). See you both in the fall.
D-Baby,
I'll take your comment one step further. "Pretty much what [I'm] saying is that [...] MIT rules. :)"
- Bryan
Posted by: Bryan on June 30, 2005 02:35 PM
Hey Bryan,
Just wanted to say hi and tell you that your blogs are totally awesome and so random. I'll try to think of a name for your fish before the deadline.
Take care,
Ashley
Posted by: Ashley Staley on July 14, 2005 10:39 PM
