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It's All About the Ununpentium

Posted by michael on from the unobtainium dept.

spitefulcrow writes "The New York Times is reporting that elements 113 and 115 have been created by a joint team of Russian and American scientists. The temporary names are ununtrium and ununpentium until the experiment has been duplicated and verified in another lab. According to the article, speculation has been made that 'Rather than being round, nuclei in that region and beyond could contain bubbles and have strange doughnut-like shapes'."

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  1. Re:Science Today by TrueJim · · Score: 3, Troll

    One would expect the sciences to continue to advance quickly. After all, science progresses via an open source model.

    Proprietary development of new physics doesn't advance very rapidly. :-) Neither does proprietary development of software, for the same reasons!

    If Microsoft "owned" 95% of physics, we'd still be stuck on Newtonian mechanics, because only a small handful of physicists would be allowed to read physics books...and they wouldn't be the really smart physicists either.

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