can the pigment know as Chinese purple form a matter wave in certain circumstances?
Peaceful demonstrations, which are the sorts urge by governments, are just a way of letting the public let off steam safely without achieving anything. It is most convenient for them - every one has a jolly time, a bit of bantering, and we all go back to the status quo. Just like the House, a lot of empty debates, and the government just goes ahead and does what it wants. The public is beginning to become aware of the severe limitations of democracy as it is practised in the west. There are times, as the government claims, it has to do what has to be done, even though the actions may be 'unpopular', meaning they are not supported by the majority, and therefore undemocratic. Thus, we have supposedly democratic governments doing undemocratic things (and we accuse other countries with different systems of being undemocratic!). In such situations where democratic governments are acting undemocratically, the public surely has a right to resort to actions other than the ballot box (denied them anyway), or futile gestures. The government is supposed to represent majority will in our system; where it ceases to do so, it has lost its mandate, and, should arguable be replaced before the election comes round.
Scientists explore atomic mysteries of ancient pigment LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Nov. 18, 2004 -- University of California scientists from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working with colleagues from Tokyo Metropolitan University, the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics in Estonia, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida and the University of Tokyo, have discovered an ideal candidate for Bose-Einstein condensation in the ancient Chinese pigment, Han Purple. In research featured recently on the cover of Physical Review Letters, the team describes how the application of a strong magnetic field to Han Purple (BaCuSi2O6) creates a gas of bosonic spin triplet excitations. The field acts as a chemical potential causing the weakly interacting bosonic gas to undergo Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) when the temperature is reduced to minus 453 degrees Fahrenheit, six orders of magnitude higher than the temperature normally required for BEC in atomic gases.
