AaS! 182: Wait, Super-Atoms are a Real Thing?
Ask a Spaceman!
Paul M. Sutter
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🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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How do you make a super-atom? What can they be used for? What does this mean for quantum mechanics? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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| 0:00.0 | Some physicists just don't get any love. |
| 0:13.3 | There's this allure of astrophysics and high energy physics, and there's certain kinds of physics fields and kinds of physicists and |
| 0:23.4 | problems that physicists study that people love to hear about people there are tons of news |
| 0:29.6 | articles entire websites and entire podcasts devoted to certain topics in physics which i get because it's super awesome and interesting and |
| 0:40.3 | usually as cool pictures or mind-blowing ideas. But if you didn't know any better, you'd think |
| 0:44.3 | that most physicists are trying to figure out string theory or big bank cosmology. And I wouldn't |
| 0:50.5 | blame you because I spend the majority of my episodes on cool topics like that. |
| 0:54.7 | But the actual majority, and I mean majority of physicists, don't work on that stuff at all. |
| 1:03.3 | There are different branches to physics. |
| 1:05.3 | You only get a PhD in physics. |
| 1:07.2 | My PhD is in physics. |
| 1:10.0 | But I specialize in astrophysics and cosmology. |
| 1:14.8 | There are lots of other physicists who also have PhDs in physics who never touch that stuff, |
| 1:20.8 | who don't care about galaxies or the early universe, who don't care about string theory |
| 1:26.5 | and the unification of the forces. They just don't care about string theory and the unification of the forces. |
| 1:29.0 | They just don't care about that. |
| 1:30.7 | They're interested in other problems. |
| 1:33.9 | One of those areas is condensed matter physics, a branch of physics that deals with stuff, |
| 1:43.2 | all sorts of complicated atomic interactions that we never think about or at the best give |
| 1:49.0 | surface level thought about. |
| 1:51.0 | Like the chair you're sitting in. |
| 1:53.0 | There is a lot of very interesting, cool, intricate, complicated physics happening in the chair that you're sitting in right now |
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