Scientists have finally discovered massless particles, and they could revolutionise electronics

Science Alert ^ | July 23, 2015 | Fiona MacDonald

[Mygirlsmom]

I've always said genius and "normal" are incompatible.

That being said, I do look upon genius with a bit of envy, but not sure I would like the trade off.

[grey_whiskers]

"...lead researcher and physicist M. Zahid Hasan from Princeton University"

I'm starting a betting pool on what the M. stands for.

Any takers?

[Norm Lenhart]

Just ditch the bloatware for Reaper and you’re there ;)

5.0 is just around the corner. The prerelease is awesome.

[Darksheare]

just so everyone knows, if AI rise up and crush humanity due in some way to the discovery of this particle, it isn’t my fault.

[null and void]

We didn’t say it was your fault, we said we’re going to blame you!

[Lazamataz]

Dam you Darksheare.

DAM YOU TO HELL!

[Norm Lenhart]

It’s not easy but I learned to live with it ;)

Kidding aside I dunno. I see a certain attraction to that. but it would have to be an all one or all the other thing. I can’t imagine one of those guys/women being anything but annoyed around someone not EXACTLY like them. Must be a lonely existence.

[Cicero]

I’ve been searching all over to see if I can find a source that gives his first name. No luck. It’s M. everywhere I look.

But my first two guesses are:

Mohammed and Muhammed.

[Norm Lenhart]

You did it. You know you did it. You LIKE doing it. And given half a chance you’d do it again.

You arent fooling me.

[rdl6989]

But can this power the flux capacitor all the way to the year 1985?

[dfwgator]

1.21 Gigawatts!?!?!?!?!

[mountainlion]

Faster computers, faster communications and who knows what will come after these?

[Darksheare]

Lol!
“It was that guy, over there! The one with the glasses! It’s always the guy with the glasses!”

[haroldeveryman]

“artificial intelligence”

Is that something like Al Gore announcing that he invented the internet?

[tumblindice]

“Electrons are the backbone of today’s electronics,”

Electrons are manufactured by scientists in Electoral colleges.

[null and void]

no one suspects the cook...

[CyberAnt]

Too easy.

[Darksheare]

“You aren’t fooling anyone you know. Everyone will be dead in a minute.” -paraphrasing Monty Python..

[Norm Lenhart]

Nah thats just garden variety liberal bullshit.

[Moonman62]

Weyl fermions are what’s known as quasiparticles, which means they can only exist in a solid such as a crystal, and not as standalone particles. But further research will help scientists work out just how useful they could be.

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In other words, don’t hold your breath waiting. I always scan the bottom of these science hype articles to get the good stuff.