50 years ago, a millionth of a degree above absolute zero seemed cold
Excerpt from the July 8, 1967, issue of Science News
CHILL OUT Scientists create ultracold clouds of atoms to study a state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate, shown above in a computer simulation.
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Lowest temperature yet
A common pin dropped on a table from a height of one-eighth of an inch generates about 10 ergs of energy, obviously a minuscule amount.