How NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is defying gravity

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The Cold Atom Lab is the first quantum science lab in Earth's orbit.

One lab at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California is literally trying to defy gravity. The

“The Avengers can shrink down and go down to the quantum realm. We can’t do that yet. But what we can do is make the quantum realm bigger,” said Dr. Elliott.The CAL instrument works by using lasers and magnetic fields to chill atoms to below a billionth of a degree above absolute zero. That’s colder than the average temperature of the universe, which is 2.726 Kelvin.

The BECs are large enough that they could be visible to the naked eye, but you can’t actually see them this way because if you hit them with light, they break apart in a fraction of a second. Astronaut Christina Koch unloads new hardware for the Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station the week of Dec. 9, 2019

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