Re: In response to a Response on low temp

David,

     There is a nice page I found explaining Bose-Einstein Condensates that 
you might be interested in from the Ketterle Group at MIT.

     The first point about Bose-Einstein Condensates is that they are 
a phase of weakly interacting gases so they cannot occur in ice, a solid.  
However, if the pressure is low enough, water can exsist as a gas to very 
low temperatures; could the gas form a Bose-Einstein Condensate?

     Probably not.  Water, even as a gas, is not weakly interacting.  It is 
an electrically polar molecule, and can therefore interact with other water 
molecules over large distances.  Also, if you refer to the page I mentioned 
earlier, you will find that the cooling methods used in creating 
Bose-Einstein Condensates are suited only to single atom gases, so it would 
be difficult to cool water to a point where creation of the condensate is 
physically possible.