Cold atoms behave like photons in a laser
abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/02/25/314917...
abc.net.auPosted Feb 26, 2011, 7:38 AM UTC
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Well it says the arrival times are equally probable. You can imagine a marching rank of troops divided into units. It's equally probable that a member from any unit will take off running towards the enemy only to be shot down just as it reaches the enemy ranks. The enemy is the photon detector.
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It's poorly phrased, but that's actually the case when you have a coherent laser: a precise phase and amplitude for the wave, but randomness at the particle level.
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Cool the laser down you say? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ds0wYpc1eM
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How much of that is abused jargon?
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I wish I was more familiar with it to tell. But I love when they use words that sound "sciencey" or "mathy" wrong.
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"They say their work, which appears today in the journal Science, is the best proof yet of a theory first developed nearly 50 years ago for light."
Err, does any one else remember any theory involving light AND matter waves?
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Does anyone not? Isn't this an obvious prediction.
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I was afraid the picture might not have anything to do with the article:
Pink laser light generic (stock.xchng: Trish Parisy)
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It immediately reminded me of this submission:
http://www.reddit.com/r/designthought/comments/fspvb/the_sad_story_of_illustration_on_the_web/
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A (really fucking cold) Holodeck?
This.