On 02/01/2010 01:25 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
> Unless it's fusion. With a small condensate, and in the BEC state, any > fusion could generate enough energy to disrupt the condensate, > immediately. Energetic particles could be created that would, indeed, > escape the trap, but it might be only one fusion, very difficult to > detect a single event and distinguish it from background unless the > experiment was specially set up to do this. The matter in the condensate > is pure rubidium 85, with the electrons, and BEC fusion may not act in > the ways that are expected from fusion. I haven't been following this thread, but... Rubidium-85 ... FUSING? Isn't that endothermic? We way past iron here. I thought you needed something like a supernova to make reactions of that sort go. > > A compressed BEC is exploding. Not from Rb-Rb fusion, I would think!
