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Stopping Atoms

sciencedaily.com — "With atoms and molecules in a gas moving at thousands of kilometres per hour, physicists have long sought a way to slow them down to a few kilometres per hour to trap them."

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  • tamar, on 11/15/2007, -1/+33You really don't care about duping other submissions, do you, Mr. Rose?

    Is Digg's dupechecker not working? The previous submission was from *four* days ago: http://digg.com/general_sciences/Stopping_Atoms
  • foxhaze, on 11/15/2007, -0/+12Rebel against Kevin Rose!!!
    • saleem, on 11/01/2007, -0/+4We may be able to ruin the 100% success rate on his submitted stories
  • dartmanx, on 10/18/2007, -4/+2Don't click bury... it will make him angry.
    You wouldn't like him when he's angry.
  • dtele, on 11/15/2007, -3/+1I dont think you can actually 'stop' atoms.
    At temperatures approaching absolute zero, atoms will slow down and start to do strange things, but I seriously doubt they can be stopped without ripping the fabric of space time (or some other bizare result).
    Interesting to see a pic of the coil.
    • MonarchWastxD, on 11/15/2007, -1/+4What? You're a complete moron. Of course they can be stopped... it just means that they have no energy in them and they are at 0 kelvin (-273 celcius). It won't "rip apart space time" or some *****.
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