Scientists Create New Form of Matter

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Scientists Create New Form of Matter

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday January 28, 2004 @10:41PM from the doesn't-really-matter dept.

soren100 writes "Yahoo News has a story about scientists creating a sixth form of matter. They are calling their new state of matter a 'fermionic condensate.' Somehow they got potassium atoms to form pairs similar to the 'Cooper pairs' that make superconducting possible. Maybe any quantum physicists around can tell us more about this, but it certainly sounds pretty revolutionary. The scientists are predicting that this will lead to 'room temperature solid' superconductors, which in turn will enable us to have better electricity generators, more efficient electric motors, and (our favorite) cheaper maglev trains."

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FP! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 22:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

FP!
1. Re:FP! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 22:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  No, this is the first post. You are dumb.
Hooray! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 22:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"Plans to build a controversial centre for experiments on monkeys have been shelved by Cambridge University.
It has decided the costs, including measures needed to protect the facility from animal rights militants, would make the laboratory uneconomic."
I am pleasantly surprised to note that people can still make a moral choice.
1. Re:Hooray! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 22:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I was talking about the militants the threat of which brought this research down. It's a moral choice to rather break the law than accept experimentation on sentient beings.
2. Re:Hooray! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 23:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  We don't like hippies around here. Only sodomists, closet homosexuals and Communists.
Maglev in U.S. by mrbrown1602 · 2004-01-28 22:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I know there are plenty overseas, but are there any major maglev trains here in the U.S.? Any major cities using them?
1. Re:Maglev in U.S. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 23:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  is this post #8122222?
2. Re:Maglev in U.S. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 23:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  No.
3. Re:Maglev in U.S. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-29 01:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I am with you Rico. Yet another Simpson's fan that needs to be enlightened.
  
  Homer's driver license says:
  Springfield, NT 49007
  
  But, Springfield (no state) was used because it is really common in city names.
  
  Also, one episode in a train station... the ticket agent asks specifically the destination, "Springfield, Illinois" and "Springfield, Massachusetts"... the reply was, "No, Springfield".
4. Re:Maglev in U.S. by Emrikol · 2004-01-29 02:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  You know...I'm tired of people just assuming the Simpsons live in Illinois. Just becuase Illinois has a Springfield and a Shelbyville.
  
  Well, want to know a little secret? Indiana has a Springfield, a Shelbyville, and a DUFF!
  
  So, for all we know, it could be anywhere!
  
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  You're all bastards!
5. Re:Maglev in U.S. by Dick+Faze · 2004-01-29 03:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Arrrghh!!! You call that an Anchor?
Re:American Scientific Dominance by mirko · 2004-01-28 22:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

EUians created the US, the US is about to create a computer that'll create instead of them and thus form another derivated world...
This computer will create some carbonated circuits which will create living beings which will be dumped to another planet where the living beings will evolve into EUians... etc.

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Re:American Scientific Dominance by pe1rxq · 2004-01-28 23:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic

If by "everything" you mean "every modern method for committing genocide" and "every modern method for running a horrific, totalitarian government" you have a point.

We may have invented it, but the US is perfectioning it....

Jeroen

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the abusing bastich by infolib · 2004-01-29 00:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I just metamodded as unfair the abusing bastich. Thought you'd be happy to know ;-)

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Re:American Scientific Dominance by adrianbaugh · 2004-01-29 01:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

> If by "everything" you mean "every modern method for committing genocide" and "every modern method for running a horrific, totalitarian government" you have a point.

Yeah. 'Cos it was EUians that invented nuclear weapons, dynamite, the machine gun, the electric chair, hanging chads... Oh, wait.

Idiot.
(karma-protecting disclaimer: yes, I know the EU isn't perfect and the US isn't the source of all evil, but this AC is still a moron.)

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Re:Quandry by Timmeh · 2004-01-29 01:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I like it when people get shut down by someone with UID seven times larger than the other guy. Good job :)
Re:EU by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-29 02:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

That's the problem with socialists, they steal your money at the point of the gun and when they give some of it back they act like they did you a favor.
Well said, sir!
Re:EU by ccarson · 2004-01-29 04:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's pointless to argue this because socialism will fail. It has in the past and will continue to fall in the future. The lack of incentive to work hard is the bullet in the foot for socialist systems. A free capitalism system isn't perfect, but it's far superior to communism, socialism, dictatorships and fascism. They'll find out their short-fall in my lifetime. I'll bet one dollar on it. :)