# Bose-Einstein Condensate

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bose-einstein-condensate/83474>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 24, 2001, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bose-einstein-condensate/83474 "2001-09-24T12:45:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bose-einstein-condensate/83474/1 "2001-09-24T12:45:23Z")

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Granted, the stuff exists: they make it by freezing atoms to within a hair’s breadth of absolute zero.  
At that point, matter loses it’s particulate identity and becomes more wave-like…all the individual electrons, protons, and neutrons exist as a wave throughout the condensate.

Question is, when the condensate warms up again, how do the subatomic paticles know how to “go back” to their original constituent atoms?

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bose-einstein-condensate/83474/2 "2001-09-24T13:23:39Z")

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Try this thread

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70203](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70203)