Posted on 03/07/2013 8:42:43 AM PST by Red Badger
I bought stock in a graphene manufacting company a couple of weeks ago. It has lost half it value since I bought it.
Uh, I’m thinking that if you’re talking about noise, you’d be better off with Ummagumma (sp?) than DSOTM. “Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and gorrving with a pict” is the only song I’ve ever heard that I simply cannot read to. The noise disrupts my brain to the point that I either have to just skip it, or wait until it’s over.
Why? I find the current crop of smartphone touch screens barely navigable as is. Plus, why would someone want a smartphone display that requires a magnifying glass to see?
You’re thinking from a size perspective. I’m thinking from a capabilities standpoint. Today’s smartphones require very small electronics to pump out some impressive hardware capabilities for something so tiny. By comparison, we could get horsepower comparable to an enterprise server in a tablet. This would have immense implications for the current datacenter and consumer-level electronics.
Imagine 60”+ televisions that weight less than a pound, ultra-dense memory and solid state disk drives allowing for hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes of RAM and possibly petabytes of disk in a solid state form, all in the same packaging of today or even smaller, entire rooms full of electronics compacted down to something the size of a phone or a tablet. The applications are almost unimaginable.
Ahh...good point.
Yes,...And still I need a BIGGER MAGNIFIER...
Now if they find a cure for tinnitus we might just be able to hear the true sounds.
were able to shed light on 1/f noise origin using a set of multi-layered graphene samples with the thickness continuously varied from around 15 atomic planes to a single layer of graphene.FR's graphene keyword is pretty impressive, btw. A ping to an old lurker along with some old engineers as well as the String Theory members.
Things that make you go hummmmmmmm.
All visual indications point to The Dark Side of the Moon..
Wallpaper. Floor to ceiling wallpaper: click your cell phone and it goes from beige 'paint' to printed wallpaper. Click again and it's grandma's kitchen - with Gram having morning coffee with you - click again - - Niagara Falls in real time...
Interesting - thanks for sharing.
cgk had a list of lists linked at cgk's homepage:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~cgk/
It's old. Denver Ditdat might not have it now.
Thanks for the abstract.
They’ve already embedded ferrous materials in paints to make “chalkboard” walls. They’re magnetically attractant and actually a pretty neat idea for kids.
If they can embed organized strains of graphene in a wall covering, like wallpaper, then I don’t see why this scenario isn’t plausible. It would be a giant monitor on which you could display anything. They would, however, have to be static pictures, I’d imagine. Refresh rates, like with televisions and TFTs, are required to present a moving picture. Unless they can embed microprocessors in the walls or in the material itself, it wouldn’t have sufficient power to display a moving picture.
They might, however, have a way to make a slow-moving presentation look good. Something like slow-moving clouds or tides.
Again, the applications are almost limitless.
That’s how I interpreted it .......
Sounds Of Silence
Artist: Simon & Garfunkel
Album: Sounds Of Silence
Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
“Fools”, said I, “You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you”
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls”
And whispered in the sounds of silence
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