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To: Doctor Stochastic
Snoke says that the magnon-making study, while promising, lacks firm evidence that the magnetic waves exactly match each other as they should in a condensate.

Why should they be expected to exactly match? Shouldn't some allowance be made for Planck's constant?

Just wondering, Doc. Your thoughts?

1,982 posted on 10/05/2006 4:01:37 PM PDT by betty boop (Beautiful are the things we see...Much the most beautiful those we do not comprehend. -- N. Steensen)
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To: betty boop

In a "condensate" (sort of like water dripping of a glass of chilled Diet Doctor Pepper), the parts have to match up. The point of a Bose-Einstein condensate is that any number of BE particles may enter the lowest energy state (kind of like clowns in a Volkswagen). This is seen in Helium II where funny things happen.


1,986 posted on 10/05/2006 7:28:43 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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