UCT’s Physics Department is the ‘coldest place in Africa’
09 March 2016 - 14:29
Set a thief to catch a thief. To catch an electron‚ however‚ set a fridge.A fridge that can cool things down to “122 times colder than the known naturally coldest place in the universe – the Boomerang Nebula”‚ that is.The University of Cape Town’s Physics Department has such a fridge – a dilution fridge – which‚ a statement on Wednesday said‚ “is officially the coldest place in Africa with a temperature of 8.
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