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I'm under the impression that if the proton does not decay - and there is still no evidence that it does - whatever matter is left in cold, dead stars that didn't fall into a black hole, will slowly quantum tunnel their way into becoming spheres of iron.
Also, I thought that B-E Condensates have been created in the lab, by freezing lithium atoms to a fraction above 0K, their electrons slow down, to compensate and still satisfy the Uncertainty Principle, their orbitals swell and overlap, becoming the condensate. Then when they fire up the photon gun and shoot bosons at this gel or whatever it is, they've been able to slow them down, to freeze them inside the Condensate.
So fast forward to cold stars supposedly working their through the quantum tunnel towards iron... won't the orbitals of these atoms also swell, essentially turning the stellar remnant into a one massive sphere of B-E Condensate?
If the answer is YES, there's gotta be some emergent properties in systems such as this.