If cooling something to near absolute zero amplifies the radius of quantum mechanical effects, which in turn scales up those effects to a macroscopic level, perhaps the same methods could be used to amplify the quantum foam, and amplify worm holes to macroscopic sizes, thus making time travel into the past a possibility.
THIS is the kind of stuff that makes me wanna become a scientist! its preety much exploration into the unknown, absolutely love this stuff. :D just too much to study tho :(
@ 1:11, dual-slit experiment, never believed that explanation. Or, between the lines of matter/light are lines of negative kelvin temperature matter/light, where electrons least energy position is repelled from the nucleus?
Imagine if someone said to the inventor of the X-Ray "Why aren't you trying to find the cure for cancer? Or fighting world hunger? Or solving world peace?". A lot of people would have died without the diagnosing tool that X-Ray is. This seemingly random research provides knowledge, which can later be used for the benefit of humankind.
The "bizarre rules of light and matter on atomic scales".. ("In that realm, matter can be in two places at once; objects behave as both particles and waves; and nothing is certain: the quantum world runs on probability.") ..are actually a feature of - not reality as it is observed, but "reality" as it is *interpreted* from observations. (and - apparently - by physicists who seem to not only not be bothered by, but also, actually seem to prefer, an interpretation that flouts our understanding of reality on macro scales. If one doesn't understand (or like) the fact that Existence trumps Consciousness (ie: as opposed to Consciousness's being able to affect reality (outside of the conscious entity), then one is "freed" to posit an interpretation that differs maximally from our macro experience)) As it happens, there has long been another interpretation of quantum observations - the DeBroglie-Bohm theory of quantum mechanics. (PS: I'm not a Physicist (nor do I play one on TV). I don't remember all the details for sure - so go check it out for yourself if you're interested.) It makes the same predictions of observations as the "classical" theory - but: * Objects are particles - period. * Their wave behavior arises from their being driven by "the wavefunction". * A particle's position can in fact be measured. (precisely?) * As much certainly can be had in this realm as in our familiar macro realm. * Probability is no more of a player than what we're used to. (NB: It was not a-priori that the quantum world can be interpreted in a way that's familiar to entities (such as us) at the macro scale -- but OTOH, that possibility wasn't going to get explored until someone decided that that possibility (the one that's not mega-wacky) deserved to be.)
I hope we can actually see the quantum matter stuff... But light probably won't interact with it the same way. Or maybe our brains will interpret something new and they'll see a new 'colour'
You can confusing microgravity to zero gravity. Microgravity is the *appearance* of low gravity which is exactly what happens aboard the ISS since they are in free fall. zero gravity is... zero gravity.
Skeletor Jopko The definition of Microgravity is, simply put "the *appearance* of low gravity" it doesn't mean there is actually low gravity. You can read this on NASA's website or Wikipedia.
Do the frequency of those condensate waves, correlate with "gravity waves"? How does Atom + Atom = No Atom (or energy?) Can you observe if they move in time or are you saying all physics, like the laws of conservation, are out of the window or air lock as the case may be?
Has anyone thought about what will happen in the direct environment where this phenomena is about to take place? What is going to happen to the generator and to the space station?
Microgravity is a good place for experiments, including space environment. Hopefully quadcoptero send a small but ready to fly in zero gravity, would move with the air
Before this video I knew very little about quantum physics and the macroscopic world at the temperature of 3 deg. or 454 deg. below zero fht ,now,I have a complete understanding of all things in the known and Capernican universe,I now have unknown probability math problems completed,I'm a happy unicorn that pukes glitter and your not HA, YAHOO,WEEEEE!!!
If only we could use it as a beer cooler, that beer would be Probabil(it)y The Best Beer in the World. Jokes aside, this is really interesting science. We might discover some fundamental principal about mater and energy.
What if due to quantum entanglement on the subatomic level: chilling and stilling a single hydrogen atom renders every hydrogen atom in the known universe inert and unable to interact with any other atom, tragically ever after? Water would spontaneously lose it's integrity and wouldn't all the newly freed oxygen atoms expand/explode at room temperature detonating every living organism on earth like an egg in a microwave? Just a thought... go science...
«The termperature of gaseous matter routinely drops to 3 degrees Kelvin ...» I hate to be the one to tell ScienceAtNASA the bad news, but the SI unit of temperature is not «degrees Kelvin», but «Kelvin», tout simple.... Henri
Tacos Attack! Never been to one of your parties. On the other hand, the video dealt with the physical sciences, which may be a different matter, entirely... Henri
Well considering a degree is only one position on a sliding scale of measurement and Kelvin is a sliding scale of measurement of the movement within an atom... then technically "3 degrees Kelvin" can be both grammatically and mathematically correct. Kind of like the different ways of pronouncing caramel.
Dear scientists: couldn't we use all those resources and effort you're spending in doing experiments that you're "not sure what will happen" and focus them in things a little more important like the cure for AIDS, cancer, and such?
Are you serious? Lasers for eye surgery? MRI scanners? Radiology? Have you thought about what new equipment/knowledge that could come from this? Do you even know what happens to materials at such low temperatures?
The prime minister of England asks Michael Faraday "What purpose does your research serve? What are you doing with our tax dollars?" Faraday responds by saying, "I don't know sir, but one day you will tax it." As it turns out the principles that he discovered are the basis of every electricity generating machine today. Faraday was doing "not sure what will happen" experiments and loom what he found. Does that answer your question? Also I doubt a professor on quantum mechanics would be much help in finding a cure for the AIDS virus, a refrigerator that can cool things to a billionth of a degree Kelvin would not be very much help either.
I admit this is all awe inspiring, and I am amazed at what we have seen of space and learned about physics in my lifetime, but about 3:00 it says, "No one knows where this research will lead". I'm beginning to ask myself, is it worth it to take these risks for the sake of knowledge alone, or to create more advanced weapons that can destroy life as we know it? If it is to "save the Earth" from natural disasters or global warming, how certain can we be that any manipulation of nature will bring about only a positive result, or only a single result, or only visible results? The laws of physics state, "for every action there is an equal an opposite reaction". Amazing stuff, but..... Lord help us.
Science itself is about questions. Learning one thing leads to more questions. So, yes, it's worth it to gain a greater understanding of the universe we live in. For instance, you mention weapons... our understanding of nuclear physics allowed us to create horrific bombs, yes. It's also led to an ability to generate power, to fight cancer, to perform noninvasive medical imaging and numerous other things. It's like understanding what a stick is. You can use it to keep flies away, pick up hot objects without burning yourself, use it to help people walk, or sharpen the end and use it as a spear or club. Knowledge is simply knowledge. It's up to humanity to decide what to do with it.
egmccann What I'm saying is we shouldn't be, as Michio Kaku says, "flying by the seat of our pants" in experimental science. I admit technology has provided some advantages but we still can't neutralize thousands and thousands of tons of nuclear waste, bacteria and viruses develop resistance to anti-bacterial and anti-viral medicines, people in general are separated from the land and don't know how to grow food or how to identify plants, etc.
This video taught me more about Bose Einsteinium Condensates than the rest of the internet.
If cooling something to near absolute zero amplifies the radius of quantum mechanical effects, which in turn scales up those effects to a macroscopic level, perhaps the same methods could be used to amplify the quantum foam, and amplify worm holes to macroscopic sizes, thus making time travel into the past a possibility.
Cold enough to make a lawyer put his hands in his "own" pockets ?
cold enough to freeze over hell when the politicians stop thinking about themselves!
THIS is the kind of stuff that makes me wanna become a scientist! its preety much exploration into the unknown, absolutely love this stuff. :D just too much to study tho :(
@ 1:11, dual-slit experiment, never believed that explanation. Or, between the lines of matter/light are lines of negative kelvin temperature matter/light, where electrons least energy position is repelled from the nucleus?
GO SCIENCE!
colder than a mother in laws' love!
Imagine if someone said to the inventor of the X-Ray "Why aren't you trying to find the cure for cancer? Or fighting world hunger? Or solving world peace?".
A lot of people would have died without the diagnosing tool that X-Ray is.
This seemingly random research provides knowledge, which can later be used for the benefit of humankind.
eduardeXtreme: "benefit of humankind."
I don't really care. I am more interested in learning how the world works.
louis tournas Good luck with that. :D
So many NASA programs launching in 2016... That's going to be a big year...
...merge into a single wave of matter. I had to pause it there.
Finally 2016, but the website now says June 2017. Another year of waiting, I guess I have to be patient.
It won't really be the coolest place unless they put a "disco ball" in the ISS, too.
This is awesome and sounds like it could be the source of incredible discoveries, like we're finally about to open the door to the quantum age.
The "bizarre rules of light and matter on atomic scales"..
("In that realm, matter can be in two places at once; objects behave as both particles and waves; and nothing is certain: the quantum world runs on probability.")
..are actually a feature of - not reality as it is observed, but "reality" as it is *interpreted* from observations.
(and - apparently - by physicists who seem to not only not be bothered by, but also, actually seem to prefer, an interpretation that flouts our understanding of reality on macro scales. If one doesn't understand (or like) the fact that Existence trumps Consciousness (ie: as opposed to Consciousness's being able to affect reality (outside of the conscious entity), then one is "freed" to posit an interpretation that differs maximally from our macro experience))
As it happens, there has long been another interpretation of quantum observations - the DeBroglie-Bohm theory of quantum mechanics.
(PS: I'm not a Physicist (nor do I play one on TV). I don't remember all the details for sure - so go check it out for yourself if you're interested.)
It makes the same predictions of observations as the "classical" theory - but:
* Objects are particles - period.
* Their wave behavior arises from their being driven by "the wavefunction".
* A particle's position can in fact be measured.
(precisely?)
* As much certainly can be had in this realm as in our familiar macro realm.
* Probability is no more of a player than what we're used to.
(NB: It was not a-priori that the quantum world can be interpreted in a way that's familiar to entities (such as us) at the macro scale -- but OTOH, that possibility wasn't going to get explored until someone decided that that possibility (the one that's not mega-wacky) deserved to be.)
I hope we can actually see the quantum matter stuff... But light probably won't interact with it the same way. Or maybe our brains will interpret something new and they'll see a new 'colour'
The space station isn't a microgravity environment, though. There is still 89% of earth's gravity in effect on board the ISS.
You can confusing microgravity to zero gravity. Microgravity is the *appearance* of low gravity which is exactly what happens aboard the ISS since they are in free fall. zero gravity is... zero gravity.
aldeed Micro = "one millionth". Last time I checked 0.89 is not equal to 0.000001.
Skeletor Jopko
you missed his point.
Skeletor Jopko The definition of Microgravity is, simply put "the *appearance* of low gravity" it doesn't mean there is actually low gravity. You can read this on NASA's website or Wikipedia.
This comment section depresses me.
Keep the work up!
2016 is going to be a great year to live
OK so we will be studying the quantum world gee hope we find out how weeping angels came into being
WHAT ?
Do the frequency of those condensate waves, correlate with "gravity waves"?
How does Atom + Atom = No Atom (or energy?) Can you observe if they move in time or are you saying all physics, like the laws of conservation, are out of the window or air lock as the case may be?
I see what you did there, title.
We need one century for probe one theory of Einstein... ! He was a very very important scientific ... !!!
Has anyone thought about what will happen in the direct environment where this phenomena is about to take place? What is going to happen to the generator and to the space station?
I have already reached these temperatures a long time ago, it is exactly why I divorced her! LMFAO!!
Cool!
Microgravity is a good place for experiments, including space environment. Hopefully quadcoptero send a small but ready to fly in zero gravity, would move with the air
Before this video I knew very little about quantum physics and the macroscopic world at the temperature of 3 deg. or 454 deg. below zero fht ,now,I have a complete understanding of all things in the known and Capernican universe,I now have unknown probability math problems completed,I'm a happy unicorn that pukes glitter and your not HA, YAHOO,WEEEEE!!!
I was wondering where the energy from the two atoms mentioned in 2:28 went. Energy has to be conserved...
If only we could use it as a beer cooler, that beer would be Probabil(it)y The Best Beer in the World.
Jokes aside, this is really interesting science. We might discover some fundamental principal about mater and energy.
You know - like the one that announced the discovery of Planet X before clearing it with the govt censors?
AMAZING. Thankyou.
Fascinating! A bit beyond my understand perhaps but totally fascinating!
YES!
H. P. Lovecrafts story From Beyond tells us what will happen .
very educational!
This literally is cool science.
What if due to quantum entanglement on the subatomic level: chilling and stilling a single hydrogen atom renders every hydrogen atom in the known universe inert and unable to interact with any other atom, tragically ever after? Water would spontaneously lose it's integrity and wouldn't all the newly freed oxygen atoms expand/explode at room temperature detonating every living organism on earth like an egg in a microwave? Just a thought... go science...
Super Cryogenic Atom :D
why i can't see it…
Podrian poner subtitutlos en espanol.
This is awesome but I have a lot of questions!
Really cool
Very interesting.
Mind blowing!
Oh quantum Mechanics. Such a confusing subject.
love you guys!
But why??
Wow...
2:28 So 2 atoms can merge in near zero kelvin ? No fusion and no energy released? Holy Crap that's wierd !!!
«The termperature of gaseous matter routinely drops to 3 degrees Kelvin ...» I hate to be the one to tell ScienceAtNASA the bad news, but the SI unit of temperature is not «degrees Kelvin», but «Kelvin», tout simple....
Henri
You must be fun at parties
Tacos Attack!
Never been to one of your parties. On the other hand, the video dealt with the physical sciences, which may be a different matter, entirely...
Henri
I have a friend whose mother calls him a Degree of Kelvin, even though we all know his name is Kelvin, only. Maybe that's the same person?
Well considering a degree is only one position on a sliding scale of measurement and Kelvin is a sliding scale of measurement of the movement within an atom... then technically "3 degrees Kelvin" can be both grammatically and mathematically correct. Kind of like the different ways of pronouncing caramel.
Thanks for this cool video on the space and temperature. #NASA #ColdAtomLab #AbsoluteZeroResearch
fascinating stuff I wish I was born in the future sumware not now we haven't even stoped fighting over fossil fuels
AWESOME x) ty science !!!
I can't wait. :)
Maybe in 10 years from now, school teacher will discuss such states of matter in class! Alongside with... creationism.
check earth orbit
Fuck yeah!
And you can't go faster then the speed of light (entanglement).
I fully expected the name Satyendra to be brutally butchered & it was :'(
As abow so below.
I'm trying to move away from cold...
This is so cool! (pun intended)
Dear scientists: couldn't we use all those resources and effort you're spending in doing experiments that you're "not sure what will happen" and focus them in things a little more important like the cure for AIDS, cancer, and such?
Are you serious? Lasers for eye surgery? MRI scanners? Radiology? Have you thought about what new equipment/knowledge that could come from this? Do you even know what happens to materials at such low temperatures?
I really, honestly hope you're trolling for responses.
LiGohan Is it working? :3
OMG! I'M IMPORTANT! =w=
The prime minister of England asks Michael Faraday "What purpose does your research serve? What are you doing with our tax dollars?"
Faraday responds by saying, "I don't know sir, but one day you will tax it."
As it turns out the principles that he discovered are the basis of every electricity generating machine today. Faraday was doing "not sure what will happen" experiments and loom what he found. Does that answer your question?
Also I doubt a professor on quantum mechanics would be much help in finding a cure for the AIDS virus, a refrigerator that can cool things to a billionth of a degree Kelvin would not be very much help either.
Bose Einstein condensate!
I admit this is all awe inspiring, and I am amazed at what we have seen of space and learned about physics in my lifetime, but about 3:00 it says, "No one knows where this research will lead". I'm beginning to ask myself, is it worth it to take these risks for the sake of knowledge alone, or to create more advanced weapons that can destroy life as we know it? If it is to "save the Earth" from natural disasters or global warming, how certain can we be that any manipulation of nature will bring about only a positive result, or only a single result, or only visible results? The laws of physics state, "for every action there is an equal an opposite reaction". Amazing stuff, but.....
Lord help us.
Science itself is about questions. Learning one thing leads to more questions. So, yes, it's worth it to gain a greater understanding of the universe we live in. For instance, you mention weapons... our understanding of nuclear physics allowed us to create horrific bombs, yes. It's also led to an ability to generate power, to fight cancer, to perform noninvasive medical imaging and numerous other things. It's like understanding what a stick is. You can use it to keep flies away, pick up hot objects without burning yourself, use it to help people walk, or sharpen the end and use it as a spear or club. Knowledge is simply knowledge. It's up to humanity to decide what to do with it.
egmccann What I'm saying is we shouldn't be, as Michio Kaku says, "flying by the seat of our pants" in experimental science. I admit technology has provided some advantages but we still can't neutralize thousands and thousands of tons of nuclear waste, bacteria and viruses develop resistance to anti-bacterial and anti-viral medicines, people in general are separated from the land and don't know how to grow food or how to identify plants, etc.
At absolute zero there would be singularity.
you can never reach absolute zero. Besides, at absolute zero, the volume will be zero for every substance.
Anandarup Chakraborty But what if we could do it? It would so awesome. Just for the heck of it.
theoretically
NASA=Never A Straight Answer. If the govt. lies, they do too. Except the ones that die suddenly.)
So Cool :D
Joy Behar will sue.
Very interesting.