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Physicists Stuffed a Ghostly 'Skyrmion' Full of 'Antiskyrmions'
Space.com ^ | Rafi Letzter

Posted on 04/06/2019 1:48:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin

[ Physicists Stuffed a Ghostly ‘Skyrmion’ Full of ‘Antiskyrmions’ ]

Is that like stuffing cheese INTO the crust and then putting cheese on TOP of the crust?

If so, I’ll take a Pepperoni and Sausage Skyrmion Pizza - with extra cheese


21 posted on 04/06/2019 2:40:23 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BipolarBob

Day late and a dollar short...story of my life! I’m the last to learn anything.


22 posted on 04/06/2019 2:43:40 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BenLurkin
Magnetic fields getting all twisted up is what happens on the sun everyday. This theory could explain some of the weird Dynamics of sunspots and other things.
23 posted on 04/06/2019 2:50:01 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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24 posted on 04/06/2019 2:57:47 PM PDT by onyx (Join 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WINNING WAY!)
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To: datricker

Or Grady Balza Fire.


25 posted on 04/06/2019 3:04:47 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: BenLurkin

I love how we have these arrogant physicists like Tyson strutting around as if they know everything. Yet they can’t tell us what gravity or even electricity act are.

You’d think that people whose research only finds more unanswered questions would show more humility.


26 posted on 04/06/2019 3:47:29 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: BenLurkin

The Beatles could see into the future.....

“Lucy in the Skyrmion with diamonds”


27 posted on 04/06/2019 3:49:12 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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28 posted on 04/06/2019 3:55:44 PM PDT by zeestephen
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Re: arrogant physicists like Tyson

I think he missed his calling.

He could have been a good supporting actor in any film that required a Black genius.


29 posted on 04/06/2019 4:02:27 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Seruzawa

“An antiskyrmion is a skyrmion where all the numbers are reversed,” said David Foster, a physicist at the University of Birmingham in England and one of the lead authors of the new study.

So, if a magnetic field line points north in a skyrmion, it would point south in an antiskyrmion. But antiskyrmions and skyrmions powerfully repel one another. That turned out to be the key to building skyrmion bags, the researchers said.

“If I take a skyrmion and I stretch it out a bit and I take an antiskyrmion and place it in the center of it [the skyrmion] … they will not annihilate. It’s a stable construction,” Foster told Live Science.

Doesn’t sound arrogant to me.


30 posted on 04/06/2019 4:09:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Very interesting. I was considering the theory and wondered if it could be considered almost like an echo. Similarly, like a wavelet assuming the same past frequency without external affect. Coherence perhaps?


31 posted on 04/06/2019 4:35:59 PM PDT by richardtavor
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skyrmions that are different from electrons and photons; a skyrmion is a knot of magnetic field lines looping around each other.

Wow, talk about a coincidence, me and my bowling team were discussing that very topic last night in the bar after the match.......

32 posted on 04/06/2019 4:41:01 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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"Magnetic fields getting all twisted up is what happens on the sun everyday. This theory could explain some of the weird Dynamics of sunspots and other things."

Of course it could and sounds reasonable because how magnetic fields fluctuate, as long proven. The Earth experiences such fluctuations.

However, math on white boards can give theory to anything providing the equations work. I am just a layman who has no physics background, but I get so tired of the ever changing theories. What happened to String Theory? Are there proven examples of Dark Matter or Dark Energy? No, they are still just theories.

I recently read scientists in the Netherlands? claim that gravity is caused by electro-magnetism interacting with certain sub-atomic particles. Another unproven theory.

The theory that really cracks me up is how the physicists claim the super-heated and super-condensed basketball (through reverse math of universe expansion) could just pop into existence, and then do it's Big Bang. Does anyone remember the theory of the universe expanding to a point until gravitational and other forces would make it contract back to the basketball and start anew? Now it will expand forever? May be, but remember, theoretical physics is just that - theoretical!

Practical physics I believe if repeated with same results. Simple examples: White light and how a simple prism can divide it into the complete color spectrum. Then there is the Doppler Effect. I also believe Red Shift is real.

What do I know? I barely passed algebra.

33 posted on 04/06/2019 4:52:02 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Skyrmion bags.....?


34 posted on 04/06/2019 4:52:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Moving forward this should be known as the official AOC gif. Gaffe


35 posted on 04/06/2019 5:07:59 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: BenLurkin

Nice touch, I feel like talking into my shoe.

“I asked you not to tell me that!”


36 posted on 04/06/2019 5:17:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin
A fight between skyrmions must be called a skyrmish.

37 posted on 04/06/2019 5:17:41 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Thanks BenLurkin.

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38 posted on 04/07/2019 12:02:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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