From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Mon May 21 2001 - 15:41:32 MDT
I'm getting my weekly fix of Science (treekiller, check out http://sciencemag.org
for the recycled electrons, but it's not for free) while bahning to work. This
stuff gets more potent with each new batch, either they're cutting it less, or
it hits me harder, I don't know which. (Yes, I get a kickback from them
for me pimping it).
Anyway, they jacked up superconducting temperature of buckyballs to 55 K,
and theory says aligned buckys should do lots better, and the best way
of aligning them seems to enclose them in buckytubes, peapod style. Theory
predicts room temperature superconduction, but don't expect to haul too
much over it (hey, I only want to do logics, you can keep all the power
applications to yourself, rendering artificial reality is cheap).
Another whopper is detection of matter signatures just it waves a final kiss
to this universe, and to disappear below event horizont final curtain.
Cool 140 Hz, while whipping around a 60 km object, then waving buh-bye, and
poof! Never to be seen again. The best thing is that we don't have anysuch
object at our doorstep. Whew. Even not mentioning looking down the polar
jets, the accretion disk alone is mightily bright.
Another one, three deep (okay, not so deep) space probes leaving this
system in different directions show significant slowing down over theory.
Either there's still unknown uneliminated dirt going on, or we have the
first actual data that we're missing a TOE (we knew that before, but it's
actually nice to see that we've now have it on hard drive).
More of above cool stuff, just in the case of a few days (okay, I did let
it pile up a bit). As I said, the world is going completely bananas, and no
one seems to give a damn. That's the only thing which truly amazes me.
What next, intra/interspacetime portals? Sorry, forgot, we already had that
last week. Looking forwards for the next one. I hope it's not going to
become much more interesting as this, I'd hate scrapping my plans for the
rest of my life.
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