{"id":1417,"date":"2003-09-12T12:46:45","date_gmt":"2003-09-12T16:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/12\/record-cold-in-cambridge-half-a-billio"},"modified":"2003-09-12T12:46:45","modified_gmt":"2003-09-12T16:46:45","slug":"record-cold-in-cambridge-half-a-billionth-of-a-degree-above-absolut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/12\/record-cold-in-cambridge-half-a-billionth-of-a-degree-above-absolut\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Cold in Cambridge &#8211; half a billionth of a degree above absolute zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1067'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created the coolest thing in the world. Using a labyrinth of lasers, lenses, and magnetic fields, the scientists chilled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded, half a billionth of a degree above absolute zero.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes your strategy is just to go for the record,&#8221; said Wolfgang Ketterle, one of the team&#8217;s leaders, a long-distance runner who compared breaking the record to when he ran a marathon in less than three hours. &#8220;Just for the heck of it &#8212; going for the record brings out the best in you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The guy should know. Ketterle shared a Nobel Prize in 2001 for cooling gas to a temperature so cold that its atoms entered a never-before-seen state of matter: They moved in unison instead of jumping around randomly at varying speeds as they usually do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2003\/09\/12\/record_shattering_cold_at_mit\/\">from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of physicists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created the coolest thing in the world. Using a labyrinth of lasers, lenses, and magnetic fields, the scientists chilled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded, half a billionth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/12\/record-cold-in-cambridge-half-a-billionth-of-a-degree-above-absolut\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}