World’s Coldest Stuff: Nobel Prize Winner Explains Bose-Einstein Condensate

What happens when you make the world’s coldest material? Eric Cornell won the Nobel Prize in 2001 for making Einstein-Bose condensate, a super cold substance. The existence of the material had been theorized for 70 to 75 years prior to its discovery by Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose. The condensate was discovered by using lasers and magnets to cool down a gas to temperatures so low that the atoms started acting like waves, and formed a jelly-like, goopy cold material.