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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."
Scientists have now isolated the particle that causes this strange mass inducing effect, and have dubbed it the "YoMamma".
which is totally what she said
the Mass Effect.
I think they're just claiming the mass they expect to make next year, assuming they'll balance their mass sheets at that point?
Sheldon?
Dr. Sheldon Cooper?
Is that you?
Mess not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
And if you squeeze the nanotube very, very hard, it disappears!
If there's a physicist out there, I get the impression that somehow leptons are being converted to fermions?
When life hands you leptons, make leptonaide.
Indeed, I'm not a physicist. How'd you guess?
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Indeed, I'm not a physicist. How'd you guess?
Um, your user name?
Free Martian Whores!
Time to start stapling bacon to cats.
I drank what? -- Socrates