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Negative Refractivity for Optical Computing
zero_offset writes "This article in EE Times details Purdue's efforts to create a material with negative refractivity. One of the important results would be the ability to create optical computers due to the effect's tendency to amplify and focus light at wavelengths larger than the thickness of the nanowires used in the transmission system. Purdue's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering's Vladimir Shalaev says, "Using these plasmonic nanomaterials, we hope to directly manipulate light, guide it around corners with no losses and basically do all the fundamental operations we do with electronic circuits today, but with photons instead." Nanowires, surface plasmon polaritons, optical computers, nanoscale metamaterials, unnatural refractivity -- what's not to like?" We did a story on the first material known to have a negative index of refraction last year.
Thank you for wasting your mod points on me dear slashbots.
Completely offtopic but go check out the RIAA website They've just been hacked.
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Check it: http://riaa.org
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Piracy can be beneficial to the music industry
Adult Entertainment
Wynton Marsalis Brings videos to Young People Inside RIAA with Eric Cartman
Money Matters
Where can I find information on giant monkeys?
When will you offer free movies?
Are there subscription music services up and running?
Hacked and slashdotted.
They're really taking a hit!
:-P
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Go Boilers!!!
Sorry, had to say it, its my alma mater
And yes! its off topic!
After reading Dianetics(by Lron the nut) I came to the
conclusion that all Scientologists have negative
refractivity. All you need to do is strap a really
new CLAM to a gurney and position his or
her body under the laser of any cd player.
After 10 minutes under the laser, all of the Body
Thetans will starting chiming in at a Tone +40.0.
Hopefully you remembered to put on your goggles because
the scientologist will start glowing like a lighning
bugs butt.
At this point you can start downloading ALL data into
the Body Thetans of this very willing scientologist. The
only problem is that the data does not remain stable
for more than a month. So you will need to repeat
the procedure every month, unless the CLAM gets
cleared, in which case ALL of your data will have
disappeared.
so it would be in your best interest to keep the young
budding scienos from CLEARing.