Friday, November 13, 2009

Quantum 'Trampoline' To Test Gravity

From The New Scientist:

IT'S the world's smallest trampoline. Bouncing atoms with lasers could make ultra-precise measurements of gravity.

To test theories such as general relativity, the strength of gravity is measured precisely using ensembles of supercold atoms falling in a vacuum chamber. These ensembles are called "Bose-Einstein condensates".

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