The coolest legos are a minifigure and a four-block stack. Why? It’s because a team of temperature physicists managed to cool these lego blocks to the lowest temperature possible. The legos were subject to temperatures that reached 1.6 millidegrees above absolute zero (-273.15 °C) for an experiment that can develop quantum computing, as Geek.com detailed:
Strapped inside a custom-made (record-breaking) dilution refrigerator—the most effective fridge in the world, capable of reaching 1.6 millidegrees above absolute zero (-273.15 °C)*—the toys did what no human can: survived.
“Our results are significant because we found that the clamping arrangement between the Lego blocks caused the Lego structures to behave as an extremely good thermal insulator at cryogenic temperatures,” team leader Dmitry Zmeev said in a statement.
“This is very desirable for construction materials used for the design of future scientific equipment like dilution refrigerators,” he added.
Invented 50 years ago, the dilution fridge is at the center of a global multi-million-dollar industry, and is crucial to the work of modern experimental physics and engineering, including the development of quantum computers.
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