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

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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

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!