::Falls over laughing:
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:39 AM, William Beaty <bi...@eskimo.com> 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.
>
>
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