Photons cooled down to room temperature, made into a blob of matter

Re:Photons cooled down to room temperature, made into a blob... by 1053r on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @03:54PM (#1938518)

A slightly more informative article, which references the paper published in nature (unfortunately, I couldn't find a copy of that that wasn't behind a paywall).

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101124/full/news.2010.630.ht...

Note that the photons weren't made into matter. They were made into a Bose-Einstein Condensate, which is where all of the component particles share quantum properties and interact with the rest of the universe in "lockstep".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensat...

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Re:Photons cooled down to room temperature, made into a blob... by mchouza on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @08:59PM (#1939109)

I believe that the preprint is at:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4088

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Re:Photons cooled down to room temperature, made into a blob... by juiceandjuice on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @05:13PM (#1938699)

To be a little more clear though (from the Nature article): "Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are a bizarre quantum phase of matter. "

I can email people the copy if they want, I won't post it though.

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Re:Photons cooled down to room temperature, made into a blob... by Shamiq on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @05:44PM (#1938740)

Is it readable by those of us who fall under the "layman" category?

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