Raiders Of The Lost Dimension (quantum mechanics)

Space Mart ^ | Jun 06, 2006 | Unattributed

[Ben Mugged]

A team of scientists working at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos has uncovered an intriguing phenomenon while studying magnetic waves in barium copper silicate, a 2,500-year-old pigment known as Han purple. The researchers discovered that when they exposed newly grown crystals of the pigment to very high magnetic fields at very low temperatures, it entered a rarely observed state of matter. At the threshold of that matter state--called the quantum critical point-the waves actually lose a dimension.

That is, the magnetic waves go from a three-dimensional to a two-dimensional pattern. The discovery is yet another step toward understanding the quantum mechanics of the universe.

Writing about the work in today's issue of the scientific journal Nature, the researchers describe how they discovered that at high magnetic fields (above 23 Tesla) and at temperatures between 1 and 3 degrees Kelvin (or roughly minus 460 degrees Fahrenheit), the magnetic waves in Han purple crystals "exist" in a unique state of matter called a Bose Einstein condensate (BEC).

In the BEC state, magnetic waves propagate simultaneously in all of three directions (up-down, forward-backward and left-right). At the quantum critical point, however, the waves stop propagating in the up-down dimension, causing the magnetic ripples to exist in only two dimensions, much the same way as ripples are confined to the surface of a pond.

"The reduced dimensionality really came as a surprise," said Neil Harrison, an experimental physicist at the Los Alamos Pulsed Field Facility, "just when we thought we had reached an understanding of the quantum nature of its magnetic BEC."

[Ben Mugged]

Doesn't a moebus strip make this same transformation?

[Red Badger]

Look Ma! No HANS!.............

[kinoxi]

If this can be replicated...
WOW

[BipolarBob]

just when we thought we had reached an understanding of the quantum nature of its magnetic BEC."

How many times have I said this, I've lost count. That's how tricky the little buggers are.

[Red Badger]

Purple Haze

Jimi Hendrix {cough? }

Lately things just dont seem the same

Actin funny, but I dont know why

scuse me while I kiss the sky

Purple haze all around

Dont know if Im comin up or down

Am I happy or in misery?

What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me

Help me

Help me

Oh, no, no

[faint, spoken lyrics...all questionable]

Hammerin

Talkin bout heart n...s-soul

Im talkin about hard stuff

If everbodys still around, fluff and ease, if

So far out my mind

Somethings happening, somethings happening

Ooo, ahhh

Ooo, {click} ahhh,

Ooo, ahhh

Ooo, ahhh, yeah!

Purple haze all in my eyes, uhh

Dont know if its day or night

You got me blowin, blowin my mind

Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?

Ooo

Help me

Ahh, yea-yeah, purple haze, yeah

Oh, no, oh

Oh, help me

Purple haze, tell me, baby, tell me

I cant go on like this

Purple haze

Youre makin me blow my mind...mama

Purple haze, n-no, nooo

Purple haze, no, its painful, baby

[Andy28]

Interesting.. Could be worth watching, see what comes out of it.

[QwertyKPH]

Don't think of this as a loss of a dimension. I read the complete article. It sounds to me as if they've figured out means by which they can control the direction in which magnetic energy flows.

With that capability, who knows what could be developed?

[#1CTYankee]

Now how can I go to sleep at night?

[Tennessee_Bob]

Bose Einstein condensate (BEC)

And they make awesome speakers too! You hear the music before it gets written. I'm listening to the radio in the year 2032 right now. And no, I won't tell you who won the World Series. I'm saving that information for myself.

[kinoxi]

It seems to be a loss of dimension as far as dimensions are understood.

[martin_fierro]

Ping

[Paradox]

I wonder what this does to the power or strength of the wave, does it cease to vary by the distance cubed, and become dependent on distance squared? What are the ramifications....

[Disambiguator]

"I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time."

Steven Wright

[ElkGroveDan]

Careful, you mess with stuff like this and aliens from another dimension are liable to lay their eggs in your warp core.

The Romulans can tell you all about it.

[ElkGroveDan]

Here it is: http://stng.36el.com/st-tng/episodes/251.html

[Ben Mugged]

I wonder what this does to the power or strength of the wave, does it cease to vary by the distance cubed, and become dependent on distance squared?

Now that is a worthy question. It would seem logical that if the energy of the magnetic field was spread over three dimensions and you changed the propagation to two dimensions the energy from the third dimension would be spread over the remaining two dimensions. For satellite communications, you could gain 1/3 signal strength for no additional cost is antenna size or power levels.

[Brilliant]

"the magnetic waves go from a three-dimensional to a two-dimensional pattern."



And how, exactly, to they determine this?

[12th_Monkey]

So what, DemocRATS have been one dimensional for years!

[gcruse]

I remember at the company I used to work, we were testing the computers to see what effect the Y2K rollever of the computer calendars would have on applications.

So we set the mainframe calendars to 2020 and restarted. The thing was, though, there was some error correction we were unaware of in the code which, rather than let us go to 2024, 'corrected' the year to 1924.

I didn't realize what had happened until I came in to work the next day and checked my email. I had messages from Dorothy Parker, Sinclair Lewis, and spam from supporters of the Scopes trial. Damnedest thing you ever saw.

[lonedawg]

Would this have an effect on my ten percent discount?
Inquiring minds want to know!!