Tuesday, August 9, 2011

What if you take something radioactive and cool it until it's a bose einstein condensate?

You can't predict when a radioactive atom will decay but you can average them out and statistically determine the overall rate with a big enough number of atoms, but what if they behave as a condensate? In this instance do we have one, big, unpredictable decay potential, or does condensing it modify the predictability of its behaviour?

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