{"id":1907,"date":"2007-10-30T07:44:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T07:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/30\/the-dressed-state-picture\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T07:44:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T07:44:03","slug":"the-dressed-state-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/30\/the-dressed-state-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dressed State Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been one for costumes, but if you lean that way, and still don’t know what you’re going as tomorrow, Jennifer Ouellette offers some physics-themed Halloween costumes<\/a>: Schrödinger’s Cat, Maxwell’s Demon, and BEC:<\/p>\n

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If you’re looking for something a bit less mainstream, how about dressing up as a Bose-Einstein condensate this Halloween? That’s what happens when a cloud of atoms in a gas get so cold — practically down to Absolute Zero — that they behave like one giant superatom. I’m not entirely sure how this would work; a bit of creativity is required. But it’d be a great idea for a costume once we’ve worked the problem. Any ideas?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, this one is a group costume– to go dressed as a Bose-Einstein Condensate, you really need to get five or six people together. All of you should dress identically, and move around in a tight pack, doing everything in unison. Unless, of course, one of you undergoes a spin flip, at which point you can wander around singly doing whatever you like, provided you’re walking on your hands.<\/p>\n

Hope this helps. Good luck with the trick-or-treating…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been one for costumes, but if you lean that way, and still don’t know what you’re going as tomorrow, Jennifer Ouellette offers some physics-themed Halloween costumes: Schrödinger’s Cat, Maxwell’s Demon, and BEC: If you’re looking for something a bit less mainstream, how about dressing up as a Bose-Einstein condensate this Halloween? That’s what… Continue reading The Dressed State Picture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}