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StephenBuckley  ·  4372 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Quantum gas goes below absolute zero

Whenever I read about these kinds of discoveries I wonder about the circumstances under which the experiment was dreamed up.

"Hey, I had this idea about temperatures... What if we got a shitton of lasers and magnetic fields and used them to constrain the movement of already extremely cold atoms while simultaneously increasing the amount of energy they have. That'd... that'd technically work, right?"

"Dude, I don't know. Have another hit."