Regarding: "Applying an abruptly alternating magnetic field -- the cut-off sine wave on Rossi's desk -- adds further to the chaos."
If a Bose Einstein Condensate (BEC) is formed in a gas, Quantum vortexes will form in the gas where dispersion is matched by non linear amplification inherent in the structure of the vortex. In this interplay between dispersion and amplification, the vortex will remain constant. This vortex will form a dark mode soliton. The sharp cutoff sin wave seen on Rossi's desk is a magnetic "vortex startup pulse" to get the magnetic dark mode quantum vortex population established. Because the gas is a BEC, it is a superfluid. Once we’ve reached our desired BEC condition, what happens? If it were a normal fluid, then once the gas stopped rotating under the influence of the magnetic pulse the gas would stop rotating in short order, and the gas would also soon come to rest due to viscosity. But the superfluid? This population of vortexes will continue circling around for a long, long time.
