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August 22, 2008

Hot atomic physics to get colder than outer space

The “queer” world of quantum physics is so out of the ordinary that the highest of high-speed impacts to be generated starting next month at the new Large Hadron Collider near Geneva requires each of its eight sectors be cooled to cooler than interstellar space, at -271ยบ Celsius, just two degrees above absolute zero.

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