Speaking of, did you see the article on particle interaction entanglement? http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090603-maco-entanglement.html
It's a first. Terry On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:39 AM, William Beaty <[email protected]> wrote: > > We recently constructed the first "cat optical trap," a longwave > incoherent 1-D version of the laser cooled adiabatic ion trap. > > Obtain a long spring-arm desklamp, lift it 10" high and aim its emitter > downwards, and place a bath towel just below it (cellulose preferred over > artificial fibers, aged fabric required.) Apply power, and after a brief > delay the space between the incoherent source and the cellulose absorber > will fill with large purring entities extracted from the Dirac background. > Remove power, and their number decays far more slowly than the time- > constant associated with their appearance, perhaps giving evidence of a > short-range attraction force. On successive operations the time constant > of population growth diminishes to a limit: a strange form of hysteresis. > > Chaotic feline trajectories are observed in multi-particle populations in > the trap, analogous to those of ion crystals during optical trapping in > vacuum conditions. We see evidence that our trap was accidentally > optimized for 720T and 1G acceleration field, but further testing has yet > to be performed. > > > (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) > William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website > billb at amasci com http://amasci.com > EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair > Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci > >
