NOVA: "Absolute Zero" on PBS in USA

[CEITEDMOFO]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/index.html

"The two-part special follows the quest for cold from the unlikely father of air-conditioning, the court magician of King James I of England in the 17th century, to today's scientists pioneering superfast computing in the quantum chill near absolute zero"
The second part will be about the more recent advances
Ultracold atom Q&A with Luis Orozco (U. Md, formerly at Stony Brook)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/ultracold-atoms.html

anybody study physics?

 

[IronFist]

im familiar with it. physics might be the only subject i was really interested in in high school. realize the heisenberg principle has its role in this. quite possibly it may be the only thing holding us back from the 0K

 

[unit321]

anybody study physics?

No. But I have a generic understand of air-conditioning and Peltier (thermoelectric) heat pumps.