(Edmonton) Canadian Geographic magazine has located the coldest place in Canada: physicist John Davis's lab at the University of Alberta. Davis studies superfluids by using ultra-low temperature refrigerators that can cool matter down to -273.1497 Celsius. Observing behaviour at such low temperatures contributes to the overall understanding of quantum mechanics, the field represented by the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics recipients.
"As you get colder, new phenomena are revealed," Davis told Canadian Geographic. "You reduce the background thermal environment, and new physics is revealed."
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