Scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter

Princeton University via PhysOrg.com ^ | April 24, 2008 | NA

[Dilbert56]

I wish my name was Horst Stormer

Very close to Elliot Spitzer's screen name: Whore Stormer.

[muawiyah]

http://physicaplus.org.il/zope/home/1105389911/1107204265_en

[muawiyah]

http://physicaplus.org.il/zope/home/1105389911/1107204265_en

[muawiyah]

For what it's worth our nervous systems have receptors that can be "triggered" by a single proton.

How/why that "triggering" works probably has something to do with the Hall effect.

At the same time those same receptors can be "triggered" by molecules containing a single hydrogen atom (which has a single proton). The "charge" of a proton is unaffected by the presence or absence of an electron.

Protons don't "whiz around" either ~ they just kind of "vibrate" ~ presumably they are available to use in quantum state computer schemes ~ this particular finding suggests researchers are near figuring out how to devise a quantum state computer using electrons ~ and the paper to which I pointed suggests researchers know more about the Hall effect and protons than they are letting on.

Somebody's got a patent ready Fur Shur.

This discovery could quickly lead to the development of sub-atomic particles fully loaded with vast computer resources.

[LTCJ]

the voltage increased in chunks, rather than increasing bit by bit as it was expected to.

All righty then. Pulitzer Prize for the Most Confusing Statement Regarding Quantum Physics.

[grey_whiskers]

Think *size* of the steps in voltage: the increases come about because of many-electrons-at-a-time instead of one-at-a-time...

Hence "cooperative".

Cheers!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Based on your tagline, if you moved over a state you could claim Ignatius J. Reilly as a name....

[Ezekiel]

It’s topics like these that remind me of how much I miss boris. ;-(

[B-Chan]

I love that book. We have the author’s mother and the great Catholic writer Walker Percy to thank for saving it from obscurity.

Too bad Toole lost hope and killed himself.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Amen all around. You ever get a chance to read “The Neon Bible” by the way? It was a shorter book Toole wrote and entered into a contest. I forget how young he was. Very bittersweet, very interesting. Oddly enough, his mother fought hard to keep that one under wraps, and I for one am glad she lost.

[Young Werther]

I found an exotic state of matter at the daily....

[RightWhale]

I’d like it in layman’s terms.

LOL. This article IS layman's terms.

[wastedyears]

Wowee

[El Gato]

LOL. This article IS layman's terms.

It is indeed, but that notion will have FReeper heads spinning for a bit, mine included.