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ClaysGhost
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Re: it was -3 not 3 (cubic)

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omegaLancer wrote:first it was to the minus 3 CM not to the third ( which is a cubic Centimeter)
The article gave::

... with a density of 10**14 cm**-3 ...

Are you seriously proposing that that should be read as 10**14 atoms per 10**-3 cm, which isn't even a density? The quoted figure is atoms per cubic centimetre, a perfectly physical number density (i.e. number of atoms / volume). Your interpretation is number of atoms/length, which is not a density.
second that millions atoms take up the space of a single Atom:
What do you mean by that? I invite you to calculate the number density of water in standard conditions and post it. Never mind, I'll do it later in this post.
.. Recall that the BEC state is not a condensation of atoms in the ordinary sense of clumping together, but rather a single coherent atomic entity. (K.B. Davis et al., upcoming article in the 27 November 1995 Physical Review Letters; journalists can obtain a copy by contacting physnews@aip.
So what? The density you posted is far lower than that of water, and none of the other reports on BECs I have seen talk about extraordinary densities. The interesting aspects of BECs are not connected with superdense materials.
If we used the the density of water at 32 f then the the density of the sodium condensate would be 2000 x that of water..( water being a gram /cm3) Sodium condensate would be ( Na11) would be 2300 grams /cm3, but that at the Temperature needed to create the condensate.
You're treating that density figure as if it were a mass density and not a number density, and that's aside from the abuse of units I mentioned earlier. Water, H2O:

Rough mass per molecule: 16 + 1 + 1 (O + H + H) = 18 AMUs. 1AMU = 1/12 mass of C12, or about 1.67e-27 kg. Therefore 1 molecule of H2O has a mass of about 3e-26 kg, or 3e-23 g. The density of water at 0 degrees Celsius is about 1000 kg per cubic metre (yes, that's 1000 kg m**-3 if you like) or 1 gramme per cubic centimetre as you noted, but we want to compare like with like, so we find out how many molecules of water there are in 1 cubic centimetre:

n = density / mass of 1 molecule = 1 g cm**-3 / 3e-23 g = 3.3e22 cm**-3.

3x10**22 molecules per cubic centimetre, compared to the BEC's number density of 10**14 molecules per cubic centimetre. So the BEC is a factor of about 1000 million times less dense than water. Things have improved in the years since the article you quote, but BECs are not and never were superdense.
As for tall dark stranger.. Already we are using lasers to probe the Nucleus of atom.. Laser induce fission of material have done... So we are at the being of a long road on the way to such technology...
Rutherford was probing the nucleus of the atom in the 1900s. Hey, I hear some guy has managed to split the atom! That is very old news. The femtotechnology you talk about sounds like a buzzword, and giving something a name does not make it possible, desirable or practicable.
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Knight of Genectic Purity

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Just caught an episode of andromeda that I miss, featuring the Knight of Genetic Purity.. Seem to me that Lucas has a Copyright suit issue with the folks of show..

Seem that the Knight armours look very much like that of the Clone troopers in AOTC, and their Wedge Shape warship could be a rip off of Republic Assault ship....
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