The Nature of the Atom
We know that atoms are always in motion, and that this motion can be defined as thermal energy.
This motion consists of acceleration, velosity, and deceleration.
But we know from UFT, that this change of velosity causes the external
field, ie, that this external field defines the locus of the atom
itself.
An anaogy might be someone trying to plow a larg field field with snow.
The driver first moves in one direction, builds a wall of snow, then
moves randomly in another direction to build a second wall. After a
while, the poor driver is stuck inside a walled in area of snow.
So, what happens if we remove (cool) the atom? As UFT predicts, less
external field would be created as there's less acceleration and
deceleration. If we keep cooling, eventually the external field gets so
week we would have trouble finding their locus, therefore identifying
the center of mass.
This new state of matter is just what we see in practice with Bose-Einstein Condensation. See http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/ for further details.
Here's a diagram showing the energy well:
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