Posted on 07/25/2015 5:31:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
” Everyone will be dead in a minute.”
Well there goes my Fallout 4 preroder.
This is true!
What if...Fallout 4 is part of the takeover!
*nooooooo!*
My gaming pc will need quasi-particles just to run Fallout 4.
They say it’s gonna be easy on the system. If not, I’ll be upgrading but I think a moderate gaming rig will be OK with it until the mods start flowing.
Cold fusion here we come!
Mr. Lenhart, that lady, uh, she makes me feel funny, you know--down there, down in my fuel rod storage area.
ping
That’s your burning sense of great and mighty justice awakening son. ;)
Have some peach cobbler. It's good for you. ;)
/johnny
quantum ping!
tech ping!
B
“the particle’s spin is both in the same direction as its motion (which physicists call ‘right-handed) and opposite its direction (’left-handed’) at the same time. This means that all the fermions move in exactly the same way and can traverse through and around obstacles that scatter normal electrons.”
Sounds like they are little gyro-compasses that hold their masslessness on course. I suppose that if you have no mass, you have no gravity and will not allow particles burdened with mass to deflect you, at least with gravity.
I would suggest that this would be the perfect substance for angels or spirits, passing through “solid” matter and everything, but I do not want to become the Art Bell “correspondent” on what has so far been a Hard Science thread.
Yes, this should lead to a faster Skynet, and help with the development of a more efficient Alcubierre drive (which will destroy objects in local space when decelerating!) We have such interesting times ahead!
Dammit. I just put all my rubles into graphene.
Why did they announce it on something akin to a blog?
Lets see what they're talking about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalum
"...Tantalum is a rare, hard, blue-gray, lustrous transition metal that is highly corrosion-resistant. It is part of the refractory metals group, which are widely used as minor components in alloys. The chemical inertness of tantalum makes it a valuable substance for laboratory equipment and a substitute for platinum. Tantalum is also used for medical implants and bone repair.[5] Its main use today is in tantalum capacitors in electronic equipment such as mobile phones, DVD players, video game systems and computers. Tantalum, always together with the chemically similar niobium, occurs in the minerals tantalite, columbite and coltan (a mix of columbite and tantalite). Tantalum is a rare metal, comprising just 8×10−9% of the universe, making it fifteen times less abundant in the universe than gold (which makes up 6×10−8%
"Less abundant than gold" .
Tantalum scrap appears to be about $140 per pound. Demand is currently about 2300 tons per year.
Massless?
Why does everything come back to communist pope Francis?
When I read about discoveries like this I think about Don Rumsfeld’s bit about the things we don’t know that we don’t know and marvel at how many people believe we understand the merest fraction of what constitutes reality. Talk about unwarranted arrogance.
Tesla would agree.
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