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Letter: Air force

Published 28 February 2004

From Mark O'Neill

I don’t know if the intriguing idea of the ghost condensate is correct or not (7 February, p 32) but I was worried by the statement: “It is no more able to transmit forces than, say, air” as I am currently watching the blades of a windmill turn.

Stephen Battersby writes:

• What was meant was that particles of the ghost condensate – like air molecules – do not act as quantum carriers of a fundamental force.

London, UK

Issue no. 2436 published 28 February 2004

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