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we are a facility which is going to go

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inside of the international space

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station as an express rack payload and

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it is a fundamental physics facility

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which will allow scientists to perform

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research on something called

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bose-einstein condensates which is

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another state of matter where we get

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down to temperatures which are

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incredibly cold meaning 100 times 10 to

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the minus 12 kelvin which is on the

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order of a million times colder than

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even the temperature of space how in the

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world did we come up with this idea that

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we needed this

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so it is a science experiment and

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condensed matter physics is one of the

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most important areas of physics under

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research today and we're able to create

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these bose einstein condensates using a

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technique called laser cooling and when

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you use this technique called laser

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cooling in a microgravity environment

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which you get on the space station you

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can get to much colder temperatures and

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so basically we want to see what happens

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when we get matter down to these

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temperatures because they actually start

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instead of behaving like particles or

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billiard balls matter actually behaves

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as waves what does this facility look

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like you said it goes to an express rack

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yes it goes inside of an express rack on

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the space station and it's about um i

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would say about the size of two filing

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cabinets in width and about a filing

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cabinet in depth and it's a box and

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inside of the box we have all of our

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electronics and our lasers and our

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physics package which is actually the

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heart of the instrument so from the

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outside from what the astronauts can see

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it looks like a box from the inside it's

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a very sophisticated laser

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optomechanical system

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laser optics has become quite a

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quite a hot topic a hotbed on space

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station right i think so yeah and so in

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particular this will be the first

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demonstration of laser cooling which has

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a whole bunch of technology applications

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as well so not hot but cold yes so it's

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a little bit counterintuitive where you

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can actually use lasers to cool

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something down and what you're actually

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doing is you're using the momentum of

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photons to push on atoms which are

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coming towards it we are pretty much

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autonomous in the sense that we're

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controlled from the ground the crew will

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have to install the experiment and over

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time there may be parts of the

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experiment that need to be repaired or

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upgraded and the crew will do that as

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well so this experiment is designed to

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be modular but in terms of nominal

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operations it's all operated remotely

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from jpl and we specifically operate

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during the crew sleep period because our

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instrument is sensitive to vibrations

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isis will become the coldest spot in the

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universe

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through this experiment

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we will also

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observe

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over an extended period of time and we

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really don't know what to expect we have

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assumptions so

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what really makes it interesting about

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cal is this element of the unknown of

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the discovery of the

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future

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exploration of

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a region which we don't know

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what we

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would expect and it's interesting to see

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it started in 1920s by with einstein and

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cal

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only through iss will will enable us to

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uncover

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this unknown so we were all excited

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about what cal and iss combine will

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provide us

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so the cold atom lab is just the first

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step that's correct because we feel

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what

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laser has

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all aspects of physics and daily lives

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what laser did to physics

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and

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believe that

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by cooling atoms to this very

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near absolute uh zero temperature

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we'll also open up an array of

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technologies from super uh computers to

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you know