Magnetic and optical traps used to cool atoms to near absolute zero
NASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/Science Photo Library
According to the laws of physics, organized systems become increasingly disordered over time, eventually turning into featureless mush, but new experiments show that some extremely cold atoms It has been shown that such entropy can be avoided.
A system that starts out with low disorder, or low entropy, should end up being even more chaotic. Imagine flowers arranged in a bouquet. Its entropy keeps increasing gradually, eventually resulting in a bunch of bright colors…
Source: www.newscientist.com
