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| electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles called spinons and a holons. |
| 2009-08-03 |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #11 Pretty awesome. Would have been nice if they'd cited a journal. This article from Lawrence Berkeley does cite a journal, but it credits an LBL team for the discovery! The article's still maddeningly vague, though. I've noticed that science articles outside my field are always either maddeningly vague, or impenetrably techincal. There doesn't seem to be anyone who can write in the middle. Perhaps it can't be done. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2009-08-03 20:30 |
| #10 Anonymoose #7: The 3 generations of leptons seem to beg for some explanation in terms of excited states of some "preon" substructure. So far what we have is limits--nobody has seen any substructure yet, and not for want of trying. |
| Posted by: James 2009-08-03 15:18 |
| #9 If you subscribe to "String Theory", then electrons are not really 'particles of matter' anyway. The 'quantum wire' theory has been around for a bit and if they've actually succeeded in producing the Haldane effect of some form of this, it's huge, yet not really applicable to daily life for the next generation or so. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-08-03 14:07 |
| #8 It's turtles all the way down... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2009-08-03 10:41 |
| #7 I read one theory a while back that sounds like something a stoner would come up with. That even elementary particles aren't. That is, the various quantum particles are complex organizations of even smaller particles. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-08-03 10:27 |
| #6 I think what the article is trying to say is that (remember wave particle duality) the particle-wave has peaks which differ for charge and magnetism when the peaks normally coincide. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-08-03 10:15 |
| #5 Nothing new - the MSM have long mastered the art of wholesale spinning. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-08-03 09:15 |
| #4 "And I, for one, welcome our new spinon and holon overlords...." |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2009-08-03 08:39 |
| #3 The bloody research grant money is running short again! Quantum computing has substantial intelligence and defense implications. That's why a lot of the funding in the US for quantum computing and algorithms comes from NSA and OSD. DOD and the intel community are running a major program review / research conference for QA/QC this month. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-08-03 07:05 |
| #2 Observable entanglement? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2009-08-03 03:44 |
| #1 Whoooo! Holons here, more spinoning desperately needed. The bloody research grant money is running short again! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-08-03 02:39 |