Physicists Say Graphene Could Create Mass

eldavojohn writes "Graphene has gotten a lot of press lately. The Nobel prize-winning, fastest-spinning, nanobubble-enhanced silicon replacement is theorized to have a new, more outlandish property. As reported by Technology Review's Physics Blog, graphene should be able to create mass inside properly formed nanotubes. According to Abdulaziz Alhaidari's calculations, if one were to roll up graphene into a nanotube, this could compactifiy dimensions (from the sheet's two down to the tube's one), and thus 'the massless equations that describe the behavior of electrons and holes will change to include a term for mass. In effect, compactifying dimensions creates mass.' What once would require a massive high-energy particle accelerator can now be tested with carbon, electricity, and wires, according to the recent paper."

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Abdulaziz Alhaidari

[Anonymous Coward]

Abdulaziz Alhaidari is an Muslim, what do you expect?

Re:Compactify? Yes, it's a real word. Sigh.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, a Dan Quayle reference. Looks like your Bush Derangement Syndrome is compounded by a bad case of Quayle Derangement Syndrome, which is sad since Quayle hasn't been relevant to politics in over a decade. You must be the guy at parties who spends the entire time ranting about politics, and who everyone secretly wonders wtf happened to you to make you so small and angry. While you're making cheap shots from your mom's basement at age 50, you might stop to ask yourself who was running Congress when the economy imploded. I'll give you a hint: they're the party of endless entitlements, and they wrecked the economy by trying to make home ownership into an entitlement.

Re:This phenomenon closely related to:

[Profane MuthaFucka]

And it will be only the second one-dimensional object known to mankind, the first being a teabagger's brain.