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A Quasi-Quasicrystal
An anonymous reader sends along a link to a mindbending article in Science News on quasicrystals — odd materials with a structure partway between order and disorder. Now researchers have found something even odder: a material that's partway between a quasicrystal and a regular crystal. The order in the new structure is provided by the Fibonacci sequence. It was constructed with plastic beads and laser beams, so no new materials science inventions are on the horizon. "'We are absolutely sure that this structure should have properties that are not usual,' Mikhael says, because materials with odd structures almost always do. Now they just have to figure out what those properties are."
They don't exist anymore - they got bought out by Hawking's Bathrooms in 2004.
It can be used to build a machine making something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
I for one welcome our shark-toting Fibonacci based Hitler laser fiends, you insensitive clod!
In Soviet Russia, insensitive sharks tote Fibonacci, you Hitler-based laser crystal!
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