Virtually every "mad" scientist has a goal like this driving them; unlimited energy, or time travel, or antigravity... just pick up any "hard core" sci fi novel, and you'll find at least one grand concept suitable to monopolize the thoughts of anyone.

But Wilson was not mad. Oh no. Not him. He was just "dedicated".

	Since his youth, Wilson had been fascinated by science fiction: both the kinds you find in storybooks, and the kind you find in laboratories busy turning things into science fact. He was a physics fanboy. If you named a modern physicist, he could tell you what they were known for, their views on the various universal models, and their 3 degrees of separation from Albert Einstein (The world of physics is a lot smaller than hollywood - 6 degrees just isnt neccessary). He knew everything there is to know about physics luminaries, from Casimir to deBroglie.

As well as being a fanboy, he was also an artist in his own right. Wilson had a doctorate in physics, as well as other assorted degrees in astronomy, chemistry, and mathematics. So great was his intellectual drive, and so keen his intellect, that he could have won a Nobel prize at age 30, if he chose to apply himself fully to anything so mundane as "leading edge" physics.

Wilson was not on the "leading edge". You might say he was on the "lunatic fringe". That's what some of his peers might say.

But that didnt bother Wilson, who was happy just as long as he got to keep researching in his field of interest.

His work during his doctorate years, had netted him some solid sources of funding. Sources that appreciated his unusual discoveries. He was never quite open about his area of research, but the side effects of some of it resulted in some profitable discoveries for such fields as superconductors and substance purification.
Over the years, Wilson had made remarkable achievements in extracting some extremely rare compounds and isotopes. Not in the puny, ephemeral quantities of supercolliders, but in real, hold-in-your-hand quantities of matter.

Wilson was smart, talented, and driven. But, more importantly, he was very very lucky.
During his university years, doing some sludge work for some professor or other, a tiny anomaly in the experimental results of some esoteric test, had lead him to the discovery of the millenia: the debroglie equivalent of a magnet.

Basic physics review: electricity and magnetism are linked. If you have electricity, you can artificially create a magnet. If you have a magnet, you can create electricity. Vary the configuration of the magnet, and the motion of the magnet, relative to a bunch of wire, and you have a basic electricity generator, sending electromagnetic "waves" down the wire.

Advance physics review: all matter, when in motion, is part and parcel of its own special type of "wave". This interesting behaviour of matter was first popularized by deBroglie, after it was noticed that individual light "photons", also act as waves that can interfere with itself when passed through a card with two small slits in it.

All this is very interesting, but remained no more than a scientific curiosity for decades, in the same way that electricity,and even the volta pile, remained a curiosity, until Edison found you could actually do someting with it.

Wilson had had his "eureka" moment, when he noticed the odd sympathetic motion in part of the apparatus that day. Unfortunately, while he, and only he, realized the significance of the results, he also realized that to achieve anything with it would take efforts on the scale of Edison's light filament search. Except much much worse, since he could not simply go down to the local chemist supply store for the materials required for larger scales.

After years of foundational work, in essence creating his own supply factory, he started making his own "filaments". Many substances were tried, as slight variations on the original material noticed by him back in the school labs. however, best results were finally obtained by an exotic manipulation of elements, deduced by observing their behaviour in BEC state.

A tiny splinter of this magical material, now reacted to debroglie waves in its vicinity.  It first required a certain amount of supercooling to properly crystalize the structure, but Wilson was sure he could improve upon that in time. What interested him more for now, was the kind of range the stuff had.

He noticed that the material had specific resonant frequencies, just as a radio crystal does. For his initial experiments, he tuned the spec of material to resonate with Ytterbium, something rare enough that he felt could be best measured. His experiments were a resounding success.

Elated by his triumph, Wilson was energized to make a more practical sized model. He put his mini-factory at full production, and after a few days, had accumilated 5 kilos of the special substance.

After enlarging his cooling and tuning apparatus, Wilson settled down to make some serious measurements. He pondered on what to set his target for. The effective resonant range of the material would determine just how useful his discovery could be. Whereas the tiny spec had very limited range, he deduced that this larger mass may have considerably more resonance, possibly even extending to the hydrogen refining plant a mile or two away from him. Capturing the Brownian motion of the gas could be quite interesting.

That geographic coincidence, coupled with the fact that hydrogen is "the most common substance in the universe", convinced Wilson to set the frequency turning to match element #1, and see what happened. He pulled all his instruments back a little bit, and stepped back some distance after starting the cooling process, just to be careful. He didnt want to be another Marie Curie.

Temperature readings:

 100. degrees Kelvin
  80. K
  50. K
  20. K
  10. K
   5. K 

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"Science news: astronomers noticed what can only be called a freak occurence. The flow of what we call 'Solar flares' on the surface of the sun, were all visiblty disturbed for a microsecond, simultaneously. Scientists are baffled as to what could have caused this phenomenon, but look forward to exciting times in the future of astronomy

In local news, a freak accident has resulted in the loss of local scientist Wilson Clark, in his home laboratory today. It is unclear what caused the accident; however, his laboratory, house, and a good part of his grounds have been destroyed.
Mr. Clark was a quiet man, but well liked by the community. He will be missed."