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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (102392)	9/9/2005 10:21:12 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

In 2001, Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Wieman won the Nobel prize in Physics for creating a Bose-Einstein condensate, a previously only theoretical state of matter. Two weeks ago, Leiden University's Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics announced that it has discovered the early Einstein manuscript that predicted the existence of the Bose-Einstein condensates. The manuscript became a paper Einstein published in 1925, a paper many consider to be his last major contribution to quantum physics. The Lorentz Institute has put online images of the handwritten manuscript, "Quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas". In it, Einstein predicts the existence of gases at very low temperatures and very low energies, where all the particles clump together into a single quantum state. This idea was developed in collaboration with Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, giving the phenomenon its name. The Bose-Einstein Condensate page presents a detailed yet accessible explanation of the phenomenon and why it is important. Lorentz Institute: lorentz.leidenuniv.nl Bose-Einstein Condensate: colorado.edu