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."

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quasi-quasicrystal beads??

[davidsyes]

What the hell? What's next, psychedelic furs? Why not resurrect Marley, Hendrix, and Morrison and some Woodstockes and give them algea and foil and an audience in Stonehenge? Wait Wait, Don't tell me. the whirled will come stoned and UNhinged and unable to compute the motions to drink an conjugate swerves...