I’m sure after I get my morning coffee that I’ll be just giddy about this.
Excitonium - I thought at first it was what CNN reporters and others emit every time they think they have really got the President this time.
I keep thinking this has to be a joke, due to the name....
Lord William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907)
(The Temperature guy)
“There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. “
Speaking to the British Association for the advancement of Science, 1900
Discovery never stops.
It’s very cool to be a human being.
Will they be able to put it in a pill?
Ahha! It just may be that the woman-abusing DIMs have been ingesting too much “excitonium”???
Yeah, getting a divorce tends to do that...
Hmm, either this article very poorly describes the phenomenon, or it is way outside of my understanding of quantum physics. Which, admittedly, is not great, since I only did a year of p-chem.
What I am having trouble with is the idea that an electron jumping from one quantum state to another leaves behind a hole that acts like a particle. For one thing, my understanding is that electrons are not particles as much as they are discreet energy packets. So, how can it leave a hole? And how can a hole behave like an anti-electron?
I’m hoping that the article was thoroughly peer-reviewed. I think I’ll withhold judgment until others have replicated the findings, preferably using alternate methods of observation. Otherwise, these researchers may simply be describing and interpreting an artifact. These things happen.
Calling Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, and Howard....
Someone needs to explain this to me as if I’m Penny
Researchers from University of California Berkeley ....... it has an unusual liberal spin pattern!
Does that cause ‘excitis’, the infliction that has hit so many media people this week?
Joy Behar, for example, had a massive attack of ‘excitis’ — as the Brian Ross news implicated the Trump family in Russian collusion — only to find the allegation to be another empty hole based on false or fake data.
Her ‘excitis’ turned to ‘bitis-in-the-rear’, poor thang.
I’m not excited.
My diet in my 20s was chock full of excitonium. Now it’s mainly dullotonium and whocaresotonium.
Words, words and more words.... semantic constructs rival the complexity of the world
When will the crowded with electrons violence stop? Shouldn’t we ban all assault particle acceleretors? If it saves one sub atomic particle...
I need to check my calendar, is it April 1st?
I have been out of college chemistry for 35 years so perhaps someone more knowledgible than me can explain it.
That formula does not seem to fit that name if I remember my chemistry correctly.
It almost sounds like they figured out how gravity works.