{"id":84829,"date":"2018-11-17T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/what-is-absolute-zero"},"modified":"2018-11-17T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T18:23:00","slug":"what-is-absolute-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/what-is-absolute-zero","title":{"rendered":"What is absolute zero?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-absolute-zero.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The coldest place beyond Earth is artificial, too. Last summer, astronauts activated an experiment called the <a href=\"https:\/\/coldatomlab.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">Cold Atom Lab<\/a> aboard the International Space Station. The lab has attained temperatures 30 million times lower than empty space. \u201cI\u2019ve been working on this idea, off and on, for over 20 years,\u201d says Robert Thompson of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Lab, one of the researchers who devised the experiment. \u201cIt feels incredible to witness it up and operating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>What happens when matter gets that cold?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If Thompson sounds excited, it\u2019s because ultra-cold atoms behave in fascinating and potentially useful ways. For one thing, they lose their individual identities, fusing to form a bizarre state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/11\/16\/what-absolute-zero-ncna936581\">https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/11\/16\/what-absolute-zero-ncna936581<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coldest place beyond Earth is artificial, too. Last summer, astronauts activated an experiment called the Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station. The lab has attained temperatures 30 million times lower than empty space. \u201cI\u2019ve been working on this idea, off and on, for over 20 years,\u201d says Robert Thompson of NASA\u2019s Jet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}