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Scientists Create Supersolid From Helium
jabberjaw writes "Nature is reporting that Pennsylvania State University researchers Eun-Seong Kim and Moses Chan have created a 'supersolid' from helium-4. Although a crystalline solid, the supersolid can flow much like a liquid. This is due to the fact that the empty compartments in the crystal move coherently, thus waves can progress through the lattice. The supersolid state can be compared to the superfluid state. Perhaps a condensed matter physicist can dumb the article down for layfolk such as myself?"
Not only is it lighter than air, it can be condensed into this condensate which can in turn be used as a coolant for modern PC CPUs.
Also, since it is inflammable, helium is safer than trying to use something like liquid hydrogen or liquid peroxide as an intercooler fluid.
I have been pwned because my
teh fun doesn't stop!!1
...or at least how to google.
Why is it that otherwise intelligent people can't get their heads round spelling simple words? Or are unable to differentiate between two similarly spelt (yes, spelt, not spelled) words that have different meanings?
If you don't know the difference between a "principle" and a "principal" then go find out. On principle, I won't spoonfeed you with relevant links; you can go do the legwork yourself for once.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Hey isn't that cool it swirls forever!
but it could be whack.
hey, I couldn't see anything with lynx. What's the deal?
Everything from GNAA, to Linux to SCO and fp. There's 2 sides to every story, but they forgot to mention fp's GNAA's, off-topic comments, etc. Thanks for Driving me nuts. (Somebody please say your welcome)
When are you doofuses going to figure out that "myself" is only an appropriate pronoun for an referent of "I" or "me"? That's why it's called reflexive. For comparison, consider how stupid this sounds: "Audrey can speak to myself on the telephone."
People who can't figure out whether to use "I" or "me" would do well to avoid falling back on "myself". At least if you stick with "me" or "I" you have a chance of being correct. This "myself" nonsense has become plague of bad usage in the last year or so.
BTW, you could have avoided the I/me confusion entirely by simply writing "Perhaps a condensed matter physicist can dumb the article down for us layfolk."
hey, do you know of an ascii goatse online that we can redirect all the lynx users too, depending on the refeer tags?
The text of the link:
ALERT
The CX Registry has shut off the goatse.cx domain suddenly and without warning.
They have cowardly cited a section of their AUP with allows them to remove sites at their discretion.
Please e-mail info@nic.cx with your opinion of this matter.
....and the grandparent down.
everything's already here/there. the most we can do is discover, & put to good use, what the creators have provided.
any other notion (& there are many), is totally false.
va lairIE/robbIE answer yOUR questions interview (Score:mynuts won, no credit to be given to actual creators?)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 15, @06:04AM (#7983896)
postponed/delayed?
that's right. you're having a little trouble coming up with questions that match the ?pr firm? scriptdead 'answers' we've already herd. & then there's the thing with the won-eyed girl's health paypers, & proposed co-location with the illegal aliens on the georgewellian fuddite corepirate nazi felon moon/mars/bars shot, & time machine projects.
keep trying. remember, keep it simple.
consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... no questions/doubts/fears will remain unaddressed. see you there?
Will PSU funding for Supersolid reseach be cut to fund the Napster service? Maybe the free music inspired this research! Off to the 'Skellar...
For what it's worth, though you're mostly correct, it's a falsehood, not a fallacy. A falsehood is a piece of incorrect information - a myth, a popular misconception, a lie. A fallacy is a conclusion reached from information (whether or not the information is correct is unimportant) where the reasoning suffers a flaw.
Examples:
"Rubenstein's paper shows that white men named
Tim have three arms." Falsehood: there is no
such paper.
"John Q. Scientist agrees with me, so I'm
right." Fallacy: appeal to authority
(argumentum ad verecundiam.)
"4=5." Falsehood.
"Because 4=5, and because in a=b a*c=b*c, then
8=10." Falsehood. The reasoning is correct,
but the underlying information is in error.
"Because a*c=b*c and a+c=b+c, then for any
operator ?, a?c=b?c" Fallacy: operators do
not have the same rules, so you may not infer
rules by commonality (Accident, Hasty
Generalization)
"Because 4=5, and because a?c=b?c,
then 4*2=5*2, so 8=10." Both a fallacy and a
falsehood. I duplicated the above example to
demonstrate that a fallacy can lead to
seemingly correct reasoning. I stuck with the
falsehood to show that fallacious reasoning
which leads to correct reasoning isn't
therefore somehow absolved; it's still a
falsehood.
"Because 1=1, and because a?c=b?c, then
1*2=1*2, or 2=2." A fallacy can in fact lead
to both seemingly good reasoning and seemingly
correct results. Frequently, someone will
attempt a bait and switch, using a cursory
example like this which fails to display a
flaw in reasoning to try to establish said
reasoning as correct, and then lead into the
incorrect results. How many times have you
heard, in moral rather than mathematical
context, something like "you wouldn't
challenge that 2=2, would you? or that
1*2+3*2=4*2? or that 3*2=1*2+2*2? so then
if 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2, then clearly 3+4=5. how
can you challenge that?" That is argument by
generalization, and frequently includes
unrepresentative samples, false analogies,
and fallacies of exclusion.
Sorry about the pedantry; I just hate to see people call things fallacies or falsehoods which aren't.
StoneCypher is Full of BS