Posted on 10/12/2013 12:44:48 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
It might prevent the bullet pentetratation, but it's not going to do anything to dissipate kinetic energy.
Carbyne coated aluminum gun barrels?
“Carbyne’s tensile strength — the ability to withstand stretching ....”
That’s an overly-simplified statement. The tensile strength of a material is the maximum amount of tensile stress (pulling force) it can withstand before failure. Some materials are ductile (stretch under tension), others are brittle (don’t stretch before breaking). A ductile material may have the same tensile strength as a brittle material — it would just stretch a lot more before failure. I won’t mention modulus of elasticity.
“Maybe I will finally get my space elevator.”
That would be a game-changing application.
The writer is but an ignorati...... trying to enlighten others ofhis ilk.
He also thinks concrete is cement
I just want to see that elephant on a pencil.
By George....someone who actually knows the correct spelling of the term! I thought I was the only one left :-)
This is a big reason not to despair about the future: technology changes everything.
Is this a workable material?
Looking for a hollow sphere, 1 mm or so, with a number (probably less tnan a dozen) nanothickness spikes.
It’s basically a strong, impossibly thin weapon which simply slices through anything at all.
Does your vorpal blade go “Snicker-Snack?”
I’ll trade you a sack full of Higgs Bosons for two of those.
From the article: “Scientists have calculated it would take an elephant on a pencil to break through a sheet of graphene...”
I apologize for my fellow physicists. Apparently, in all that excitement, they forgot to calculate the piss-poor compressive strength of a pencil...
Cheers!
I’ll trade you a sack full of Higgs Bosons for two of those.
Unobtanium? Is that a Green Lantern animated series reference?
Winner!
True that, my mistake.
Was thinking a little too small :)
Guess, paraphrasing what you said, it would be as close as you could get to a 1 dimensional object composed of atoms in the real world.
Not literally one dimensional but about the closest thing possible in the physical world.
In quantum physics, dimensions one atom thick are comparable to the proportional dimensions of the known universe
Just pulling your carbyne chain
gun barrels? I didn’t see anything about abrasion resistance so I’m guessing we just have to look around for the guys with the blacky fingers to figger out who’s been playing with the graphite. So far it looks like a coating with no thickness would be good for one shot and a 911 call. One of those deals where your wife punches the 9 and the 1 and waits for the shot to punch the the other 1.
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