{"id":18,"date":"2012-02-21T10:45:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T10:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heikegani.com\/wordpress\/?p=18"},"modified":"2015-11-11T18:24:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T18:24:44","slug":"wolfgang-ketterle-bose-einstein-condensates-the-coldest-matter-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wolfgang-ketterle-bose-einstein-condensates-the-coldest-matter-in-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfgang Ketterle: The Coldest Matter in the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_312\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312\" style=\"width: 115px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wolfgang-Ketterle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-312    \" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Wolfgang Ketterle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wolfgang-Ketterle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wolfgang-Ketterle.jpg 200w, https:\/\/heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wolfgang-Ketterle-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wolfgang-Ketterle-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/heikegani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wolfgang-Ketterle-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wolfgang. Biceps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nobel Prize winner and owner of the best accent in science, Wolfgang Ketterle is one of the foremost researchers into one of the most intriguing areas of Physics &#8211; the study of matter at ultra cold temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>In particular the Bose-Einstein condensate, where quantum effects like the wave nature of matter can actually be seen at the macroscopic scale with atoms &#8220;walking in lockstep&#8221; together.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one of his great lectures from MIT on Bose-Einstein Condensates: The Coldest Matter in the Universe. Not exactly &#8216;general interest&#8217; viewing, but enlightening if you can keep up.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Bose-Einstein Condensates: The Coldest Matter in the Universe<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WQrjxd-ej_M?list=PLkj3uicOSj_U9n0ztDu853cr9CIv8ue7G\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Prize winner and owner of the best accent in science, Wolfgang Ketterle is one of the foremost researchers into one of the most intriguing areas of Physics &#8211; the study of matter at ultra cold temperatures. In particular the Bose-Einstein condensate, where quantum effects like the wave nature of matter can actually be seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16,17,150,18],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physics","tag-bose-einstein-condensate","tag-matter-waves","tag-physics","tag-wolfgang-ketterle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heikegani.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}