Exploring Superstrings in the Lab 312
ultracool writes "Physicists at Utrecht University in the Netherlands have come up with a way of observing a superstring by utilizing Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). A one-dimensional BEC in an optical lattice is rapidly rotated, causing a quantized vortex to form. The bosonic part of the superstring consists of this vortex line. Inside the vortex, they would trap an ultracold cloud of fermionic atoms. Hopefully this will allow observation of the supersymmetry between bosons and fermions, thus providing the first experimental evidence to support superstring theory."
Woah.. (Score:5, Funny)
I use super-strings all the time (Score:5, Funny)
They're great. You can modify them and they aren't synchronized so they're fast, too. If these scientists are only just now discovering them they should try reading some newsgroups.
No Way! (Score:3, Funny)
I saw that episode (Score:3, Funny)
Summary (Score:0, Funny)
Think of the applications! (Score:5, Funny)
This has direct implications for the food industry. No longer will superstring cheese have to be refrigerated, the fermionic atoms will maintain an ultracold cloud around the superstring cheese, keeping it tasty and fresh. Yum.
Re:Woah.. (Score:2, Funny)
"Pro-actively enabling the supersymmetry between bosons and fermions..."
char array (Score:2, Funny)
Superstring? (Score:2, Funny)
Uh huh (Score:2, Funny)
Pfft. Well, obviously.
Ahh.. (Score:3, Funny)
Yes it is. (Score:2, Funny)
Of course it's possible to see symmetry between bosoms and females--
(hears enraged Slashdotters worldwide screaming bosons and fermions)
--what? nah, I've no idea about those.
Forget Norway! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I want a room temp condensate (Score:4, Funny)
If you can flow liquid helium up your arm at room temperature, it's time to talk to your landlord ASAP.
Re:Woah.. (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:It might not hurt... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Woah.. (Score:1, Funny)
I don't even know why I try to help people like you, because if you can't understand something like that in plain English, you'll never be able to understand the subtleties of the situation.
Seriously, it's like talking to a chimpanzee. It makes me want to scream and go calculate a closed form for pi in terms of Green's functional applied to a K-type harmonic map.
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Re:And here's what they'll see... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Woah.. (Score:4, Funny)
Of course it would.
Re:Woah.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Woah.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I use super-strings all the time (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Woah.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Woah.. (Score:2, Funny)
That summary... well. Trekkies eat your heart out.
Quick! (Score:2, Funny)