BTW - since it will probably come up as an objection - yes, we appreciate that protons are not bosonic.
However, the so-called DDL which is a proton with a relativistic electron at very close proximity is a composite boson. At any rate, we should drop the designation BEC - and call this species something else. From: Jones Beene Very interesting Kevin. This could be especially relevant if the tubes in question are shown to be a composite, made with graphite fibers, or CNT. The inside of a carbon nanotube would seem to favor a single line of dense hydrogen. The hydrogen may technically not need to be 1-D so much as to have an extreme ratio of length to diameter. From: Kevin O'Malley ***I have a theory to propose. It could be a one dimensional BEC rather than 3 dimensional. By that, I mean that there's a BEC forming along a single line of atoms (1dimensional), not along a plane (2dimensional) nor in a cube (3dimensional). So it's a partial BEC.
