Weird ion behaviors

[PB666]

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-physicists-apparent-departure-laws-thermodynamics.html

[RainDreamer]

Saw this a while ago, but didn't want to post it here due to clickbait title.

At the end it says:

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Buffer gas cooling is crucial in fields ranging from forensics to the production of antimatter. Hudson's research group has discovered important nuances that revise the current understanding of the cooling process, explain the difficulties encountered in previous cooling experiments and show a new path forward for creating ultra-cold ion samples. With this framework the researchers showed how troublesome effects can be overcome and even exploited to study the mechanisms at play in molecular motors and single-atom heat engines in a precisely controlled manner.

"Of course, this work does not violate the laws of thermodynamics, but it does demonstrate there are still some interesting, potentially useful things to learn about buffer gas cooling," said John Gillaspy, a physics division program director at the National Science Foundation, which funds the research. "This is the sort of fundamental research that can really guide a wide range of more applied research efforts, helping other scientists and engineers to avoid going down dead-end paths and illuminating more fruitful directions they might take instead."

So well, there are no departure from laws of thermodynamic.

[Shpaget]

Apparently the author of the article didn't read his own article.

[lugge]

Random link is random.

[p1t1o]

The pedant in me wants to say, "Well, it did say "apparent"...", and also that the article probably wasn't written by the author of the paper, but christ its like *every* research paper/article has to have something about thermodynamics violation, rewriting physics as we know it, something travelling faster than light, causality violations or the other chesnut: "like a lightsaber".

"New low-friction bearing in 2016 line of hotwheels may produce infinite momentum!"

"Experiments in nanolathing may produce sentient computer!"

"During production of pocahontas III, Disney may have accidentally created an artificial black hole!"