The second part of the NOVA program Absolute Zero airs tonight on PBS stations. The first part, "The Conquest of Cold" covered the theory and technology of refrigeration, while this segment, "The Quest for Absolute Zero" will include all the fun atomic physics stuff leading up to the achievement of Bose-Einstein Condensation in 1995.
Check your local listings, and set your schedules appropriately.
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Things are a bit busy at work on my real job lately, and I don't have time to put together as detailed a post for today as I'd like.
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Back during the DonorsChoose fundraiser, I promised a donor that I'd write an article about the math of zero. I haven't done it yet, because zero is actually a suprisingly deep subject, and I haven't really had time to do the research to do it justice.
I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to
have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series
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Thanks for the reminder! I just got an HDTV for Winter Solstice, and it's helped rekindle my love for PBS and Nova!