Cool and not so cool

Started by `Eylan Ayfalulukanä, January 31, 2013, 11:34:45 PM

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`Eylan Ayfalulukanä

It is interesting how we are applying physics to more and more problems. Sometimes, there are some really cool solutions to problems. But is it really that cool? these articles look at the same discovery from totally opposite viewpoints.

First the cool: (achieving cooling with laser light): (Just click through the annoying popup ads. This is a reputable site.)

http://www.ecnmag.com/news/2013/01/ntu-research-embraces-laser-and-sparks-cool-affair?et_cid=3066579&et_rid=45574060&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ecnmag.com%2fnews%2f2013%2f01%2fntu-research-embraces-laser-and-sparks-cool-affair

And the not so cool: (what was really discovered, plus an interesting look at what the CFC ban may not have done!)

http://www.ecnmag.com/blogs/2013/01/not-so-very-cool?et_cid=3068828&et_rid=45574060&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ecnmag.com%2fblogs%2f2013%2f01%2fnot-so-very-cool

I read a lot of these research articles that claim that some weird little discovery is going to turn the world inside out. In the end, maybe 1 in 100 of these ideas ever ends up having a major impact on the world. The laser cooling described here is a truly novel technology that in the end, will probably have few applications outside of a lab or a spacecraft.

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