Buckyballs...UNITE!

[nissangirl74]

http://news.discovery.com/space/stellar ... pgn=emnws1

Who could resist opening that link?

[alms24sebring]

lol yeah buckyballs are something else but thats cool that they found it elsewhere in the Universe. I cant wait to see what kind of technology scientists can come up with with such a stable atom. Maybe even some kind of ultra hard but very light diamond plated armor. Thatll cost 2 pretty pennies.

If you know Young's double slit experiment and how photons seem to travel thru both slits simultaneously, buckyballs, a solid molecule with mass, does the same thing... Weird and totally unexplainable.

[bigbadberry3]

lol yeah buckyballs are something else but thats cool that they found it elsewhere in the Universe. I cant wait to see what kind of technology scientists can come up with with such a stable atom. Maybe even some kind of ultra hard but very light diamond plated armor. Thatll cost 2 pretty pennies.

If you know Young's double slit experiment and how photons seem to travel thru both slits simultaneously, buckyballs, a solid molecule with mass, does the same thing... Weird and totally unexplainable.

Young's double slit is so very fun but not unexplained .

[alms24sebring]

Really? Last I heard (late last year) it was still a mystery of the way it acts

[szh]

Really? Last I heard (late last year) it was still a mystery of the way it acts

As I recall (read his book on the topic quite a while back though), Feynman's Quantum Electro-Dynamics (QED) theory is the way to explain it cleanly ...

Z

[alms24sebring]

Never really studied QED. Quantum mechanics is a whole new impossible world. Oh well, always learning.

[szh]

This is the book on the topic that I have ... read it years ago:

http://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Theor ... 118&sr=8-2

Z