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
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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
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