A magnetic and optical trap used to cool atoms to close to absolute zero
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
The laws of physics assert that an organised system will grow increasingly disordered over time until it dissolves into featureless mush – but a new experiment shows that some extremely cold atoms could avoid such entropy.
Any system beginning with low disorder, or low entropy, is bound to eventually become more of a mess. Picture flowers arranged in a bouquet: their entropy will gradually keep increasing until the brightly-coloured bundle…
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