Here is short further elaboration, based on the derivative concept
of a "transitory BEC state".
A key new word for the understanding of "transitory" is this
situation is the "attosecond" scale ...
A transitory BEC state is a situation where a collection of bosons
is put into a physical state of imposed "minimized degrees of
freedom" ... which is not necessarily all that close to absolute
zero... following which we might expect to see that the material
displays markedly different physical properties than the normal
state - properties which are intermediate to a full BEC. The
rationale would be that a percentage of atoms has become
temporarily 'condensed' by application of such constrains as
enormous effective pressure (for instance) even at moderately low
temperature near 100 K. Obviously, I am trying to test the limits
of the concept to encompass such things as molecular bosons and
HTSC.
This kind of outrageous idea is only plausible if you understand
fully the ramifications of a "transitory state" in the QM sense of
slowing time down to attoseconds... and the most (only)
well-studied example being water. NOTE that water is being used
mainly as a metaphor for the transitory state - as water, although
arguably bosonic in a molecular sense (and having vastly different
properties in some of the ice configurations like ice-9) is not
precisely the best example for this hypothesis. Probably the best
example would be carbon.
As we all know...water is commonly, universally, AND imprecisely
given the formula of H2O ... when in reality at any given instant
in time the correct formula is closer to H(sub1.5)O, the other
quarter of all protons being transitory. The AIP Physics News
report (below) is from the ISIS neutron spallation facility in the
UK - which shows that the ratio of Hydrogen to Oxygen in water AT
ANY INSTANT is closer to 1.5:1 rather that 2:1 as the conventional
notation implies.
http://physics.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2003/split/648%2D1.html
While the molecular movements within liquid water require the
constant breaking and reorganization of individual hydrogen bonds
on a sub-picosecond timescale, the process must necessarily be
nearly lossless, due to the enormous "transaction volume." The
same would be the case for a Transitory BEC state, or TBEC.
The recent "opening of the attosecond time window" - in
conjunction with nanotechnology may be poised to reveal dramatic
quantum effects that were once too short-lived to catch. The TBEC
is admittedly a "stretch" but if it pans out, you heard it first
on vortex.
Regardless of the full scope of this "freezing of time"
(sub-picosecond) - such new understanding may revise conventional
textbook notions of bosonic atomic structures - such as diamond
(wrt graphite) - as well as possibly extending to molecules such
as water and other everyday molecules and of special interest
HTSC.
More on this later... as "Oenological" pursuits have now gotten my
the best of my once-coherent attention.
Jones
First, find a candidate-boson. Freeze it and constrain it as
much as possible, Accelerate it to the velocity of the quantum
transition and look for unusual changes- such as mass-loss,
color change, conductivity, reflectivity, or really any change
in physical properties that would show evidence of a transitory
BEC state.
A good candidate material might be carbon. Carbon in the form of
graphite fibers. A small hoop or torus of a few grams of
graphite fiber with a circumference of 10 cm can be frozen to as
low as temp as possible and spun at the rate of 10.94 RPS. Some
changes may be noticeable if the carbon undergoes even
transitory excursions into a BEC state. One expected change
might be color loss or even partial transparency.
BTW - although we know that diamond, which is transparent, is
well described simply as a particular structural phase of
carbon, no one has yet ruled out the possibility that some of
the strange physical properties of diamond (relative to
graphite) are not related to a transitory BEC state - due to the
enormous virtual-self-pressure of the unusual regular and
coherent bonding.
