{"id":23357,"date":"2020-06-16T06:47:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T06:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=23357"},"modified":"2020-06-16T06:47:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T06:47:17","slug":"nasa-scientists-observed-the-fifth-state-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/nasa-scientists-observed-the-fifth-state-of-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Scientists observed the fifth state of matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scientists have observed the fifth state of matter, Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in space for the first time, offering unprecedented insight that could help solve some of the quantum universe&#8217;s most intractable conundrums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bose-Einstein condensates are the existence of which was predicted by Albert Einstein and Indian mathematician Satyendra Nath Bose almost a century ago. They are formed when atoms of certain elements are cooled to near absolute zero (0 Kelvin, minus 273.15 Celsius).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BECs straddle the line between the macroscopic world governed by forces such as gravity and the microscopic plane, ruled by quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BECs contain vital clues to mysterious phenomena such as dark energy, the unknown energy thought to be behind the Universe&#8217;s accelerating expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BECs are extremely fragile. The slightest interaction with the external world is enough to warm them past their condensation threshold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scientists have observed the fifth state of matter, Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in space for the first time, offering unprecedented insight that could help solve some of the quantum universe&#8217;s most intractable conundrums. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points: Bose-Einstein condensates are the existence of which was predicted by Albert Einstein [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":23358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[870],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-23357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23359,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357\/revisions\/23359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23357"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=23357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}