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- The Cold Atom Laboratory is
in many ways the coolest thing
and the coldest thing we've ever done
on the International Space Station.
It is allowing us to
investigate full quantum gases
and make breakthroughs in areas of physics
that up until now have
been unavailable to us.
- NASA built the International
Space Station to do the kind
of research that we're
doing in the Cold Atom Lab.
This is the first time we're able
to study this fifth
state of matter in space.
- Bose-Einstein Condensation
is an amazing feat
of engineering in itself,
but this type of physics is difficult
to do in ground-based experiments.
And so doing this in micro
gravity is going to allow us
to really see what's going on.
So if you have something cool,
how do you make it cooler?
You put it in space.
- Our ability to study cold atoms
is really gonna advance
our knowledge in areas
that will help us in quantum computing,
quantum communications, and
learn even more about gravity
and how it interacts in our universe.
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