Quantum Realm’s ‘Fifth State of Matter’ Observed in Space For the First Time

[Michie]

Scientists have observed the fifth state of matter in space for the first time, using ultra-cold atoms which offer an unprecedented opportunity to unlock the mysteries of the quantum universe beyond our current understanding, research showed Thursday.

This month marks 25 years since scientists first produced a fifth state of matter, which has extraordinary properties totally unlike solids, liquids, gases and plasmas. The achievement garnered a Nobel Prize and changed physics.

A new study in the journal Nature builds on that legacy, featuring the results from two years of work at NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, which became the first facility to produce that fifth state of matter, called a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), in Earth orbit, using one of the most sensitive instruments mankind has ever built.

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Quantum Realm’s ‘Fifth State of Matter’ Observed in Space For the First Time

 

[Hans Blaster]

Scientists have observed the fifth state of matter in space for the first time, using ultra-cold atoms which offer an unprecedented opportunity to unlock the mysteries of the quantum universe beyond our current understanding, research showed Thursday.

This month marks 25 years since scientists first produced a fifth state of matter, which has extraordinary properties totally unlike solids, liquids, gases and plasmas. The achievement garnered a Nobel Prize and changed physics.

A new study in the journal Nature builds on that legacy, featuring the results from two years of work at NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, which became the first facility to produce that fifth state of matter, called a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), in Earth orbit, using one of the most sensitive instruments mankind has ever built.

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Quantum Realm’s ‘Fifth State of Matter’ Observed in Space For the First Time

Michie---

I'm glad you started posting to other places than the RCC-only board things that aren't related to the Church. But...

This is a fairly low thread count board with most of the action focused on a handful of active threads. Currently about a half-dozen threads that you didn't post have been active in the last few days. This is less than the number of your threads that don't have any replies yet. Given the way things work around the P&LS board, I am concerned that the active threads will get drowned out and pushed off the first page.

One possibility would be for you to create a "science news" thread, perhaps a new one each month and post to it for the month. We could use a good news update thread and any article that caught our attention could spawn its own thread.

There actually was a thread on the first page about this topic:

The International Space Station will soon become the coldest place in the known universe

Welcome aboard.