1 00:00:00,430 --> 00:00:44,549 [Music] 2 00:00:48,709 --> 00:00:46,310 the cold adam laboratory 3 00:00:50,709 --> 00:00:48,719 is in many ways the coolest thing and 4 00:00:52,869 --> 00:00:50,719 the coldest thing we've ever done 5 00:00:53,990 --> 00:00:52,879 on the international space station it is 6 00:00:57,430 --> 00:00:54,000 allowing us 7 00:00:59,349 --> 00:00:57,440 to investigate cool quantum gases 8 00:01:01,510 --> 00:00:59,359 and make breakthroughs in areas of 9 00:01:04,950 --> 00:01:01,520 physics that up until now have been 10 00:01:07,109 --> 00:01:04,960 unavailable to us nasa built the 11 00:01:08,950 --> 00:01:07,119 international space station 12 00:01:10,950 --> 00:01:08,960 to do the kind of research that we're 13 00:01:12,469 --> 00:01:10,960 doing in the cold adam lab 14 00:01:15,030 --> 00:01:12,479 this is the first time we're able to 15 00:01:19,030 --> 00:01:15,040 study this fifth state of matter 16 00:01:20,230 --> 00:01:19,040 in space bose einstein condensation is 17 00:01:23,510 --> 00:01:20,240 an amazing feat 18 00:01:26,630 --> 00:01:23,520 of engineering in itself but 19 00:01:27,910 --> 00:01:26,640 this type of physics is difficult to do 20 00:01:29,670 --> 00:01:27,920 in ground-based experiments 21 00:01:31,350 --> 00:01:29,680 and so doing this in microgravity is 22 00:01:34,789 --> 00:01:31,360 going to allow us to really 23 00:01:36,230 --> 00:01:34,799 see what's going on so you have 24 00:01:39,350 --> 00:01:36,240 something cool how do you make it cooler 25 00:01:43,590 --> 00:01:41,830 our ability to study cold atoms is 26 00:01:45,030 --> 00:01:43,600 really going to advance our knowledge in 27 00:01:46,789 --> 00:01:45,040 areas that will help us 28 00:01:48,069 --> 00:01:46,799 in quantum computing quantum 29 00:01:52,230 --> 00:01:48,079 communications