Great Lecture Series

William D. Phillips, who works with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, demonstrates the cooling potential of liquid nitrogen, the laser-based technique known as "optical molasses" and shows how magnetic bottles can help science built more accurate atomic clocks.


http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?video?BI_Full_20080920_834096_WilliamPhillips

Originally posted by uzless
William D. Phillips, who works with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, demonstrates the cooling potential of liquid nitrogen, the laser-based technique known as "optical molasses" and shows how magnetic bottles can help science built more accurate atomic clocks.


http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?video?BI_Full_20080920_834096_WilliamPhillips

Yep, saw that one, he is a good speaker. I liked the part where he put about 20 air filled balloons in a bucket of LN2, they squashed flat.

truly awesome lecture, quantum computers gonna make these quad core machines look like ancient water clocks!

For those of you who haven't watched this yet, it is a treat - the way physics is supposed to be taught!