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Physicists Stuffed a Ghostly 'Skyrmion' Full of 'Antiskyrmions'
Space.com ^ | Rafi Letzter

Posted on 04/06/2019 1:48:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin

There are ghostly shapes hidden in magnetic fields.

They're not made of stuff in the way a lightning bolt or a beam of light is. A lighting bolt carries a fairly defined group of electrons from the sky all the way to the ground....

But magnetic fields contain things called skyrmions that are different from electrons and photons; a skyrmion is a knot of magnetic field lines looping around each other. As it drifts from one spot to the next, a skyrmion makes itself anew out of the magnetic field lines that are already there. The knot holds together because magnetic field lines resist passing through one another. So, while skyrmions are insubstantial and different from objects we're used to thinking about, they act like more tangible things.

Physicists call these skyrmions "quasiparticles," and suspect they could explain phenomena as disparate as ball lightning and the nuclear structure of an atom. Now, in a new paper, researchers showed that skyrmions can be stuffed inside one another, taking on a completely new shape. These puffed-up "skyrmion bags" are fascinating objects in their own right, but the bizarre things might also be useful for futuristic computing, the researchers said.

The team revealed the skyrmion bags in a paper published April 1 in the journal Nature Physics. The result relies on a key similarity between the ghostly quasiparticles and solid matter: the existence of antiparticles.

Just like protons have counterpart antiprotons that annihilate each other on contact with each other, skyrmions have antiskyrmions.

So, if a magnetic field line points north in a skyrmion, it would point south in an antiskyrmion. But antiskyrmions and skyrmions powerfully repel one another...

What's more, the researchers realized, once a skyrmion has been stretched, you can stuff even more antiskyrmions inside it.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: cornea; corona; magneticfields; quasiparticles; skyrmions; stringtheory
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"A skyrmion is a knot of magnetic field lines looping around each other. As it drifts from one spot to the next, a skyrmion makes itself anew out of the magnetic field lines that are already there. The knot holds together because magnetic field lines resist passing through one another."


1 posted on 04/06/2019 1:48:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


2 posted on 04/06/2019 1:48:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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"skyrmion bags"

Sounds like a description of Hillary Clinton. Although she's anything but magnetic.

3 posted on 04/06/2019 1:50:42 PM PDT by IronJack
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4 posted on 04/06/2019 1:53:04 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: BenLurkin
researchers showed that skyrmions can be stuffed inside one another


5 posted on 04/06/2019 1:53:18 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin

Quran and Science: Are Stars Missiles That Allah Shoots at Demons?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pq3NShgsgs


6 posted on 04/06/2019 1:54:44 PM PDT by Zeneta
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To: BenLurkin

Sadly, William F. Buckley did not live to see the antiskyrmionism he went off in search of ...


7 posted on 04/06/2019 1:54:51 PM PDT by x
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To: Doogle

“One particular form of skyrmions is magnetic skyrmions, found in magnetic materials that exhibit spiral magnetism due to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, double-exchange mechanism or competing Heisenberg exchange interactions.”


8 posted on 04/06/2019 1:57:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

This is an episode of Big Bang Theory, right?


9 posted on 04/06/2019 2:01:02 PM PDT by raybbr (The left is a poison on society. There is no antidote. Running its course will be painful. You)
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To: BenLurkin

"I thought so"

10 posted on 04/06/2019 2:06:26 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: BenLurkin

Great gif!


11 posted on 04/06/2019 2:06:29 PM PDT by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
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“Skyrmion Bags”

I think I have to re-register on FR with a new screen name.


12 posted on 04/06/2019 2:06:56 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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"skyrmion bags"

Sounds like a description of Hillary Clinton. Although she's anything but magnetic.

Even more so if you shorten it to "skyrmbag".

13 posted on 04/06/2019 2:07:44 PM PDT by Rocky
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks for clearing that up for us.


14 posted on 04/06/2019 2:08:04 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Back in the 80's I came across a ranch hand that got hit by ball lightning.

It came down the chimney, rolled across the room and nailed him as he slept in bed.

He was burned head to toe.

15 posted on 04/06/2019 2:10:45 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: BenLurkin

The team revealed the skyrmion bags in a paper published April 1 in the journal Nature Physics.

If I were a physicist, especially a physicist working on skyrmions and antiskyrmions, I would avoid April 1 as a publication date.


16 posted on 04/06/2019 2:10:54 PM PDT by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

You didn’t know that? I would never have owned up to that.


17 posted on 04/06/2019 2:11:53 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I got dozens of friends and the fun never ends that is, as long as I'm buying)
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To: raybbr
There might be an episode, but I don't have a Television.

My niece played a Higgs Boson in The Younger Scrolls: Skyrmion MMORPG.

18 posted on 04/06/2019 2:14:17 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: BenLurkin

Looks like my Norelco shaver.


19 posted on 04/06/2019 2:22:02 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: Deaf Smith
Back in the 80's I came across a ranch hand that got hit by ball lightning. It came down the chimney, rolled across the room and nailed him as he slept in bed. He was burned head to toe.

Ironically the ranch hand's name was Skyrmion Bags

20 posted on 04/06/2019 2:38:45 PM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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