Physicists Create Quark-Gluon Plasma Droplets
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Sci-News.com ^
| Dec 12, 2018 | News Staff / Source
Scientists believe that quark-gluon plasma filled the entire Universe during the first few microseconds after the Big Bang when the Universe was still too hot for particles to come together to make atoms.The PHENIX team used the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory to recreate that matter.In a series
of tests, the physicists smashed packets of small projectiles in different combinations (single protons, two-particle deuterons, and three-particle helium-3 nuclei) into much bigger gold nuclei.“RHIC is the only accelerator in the world where we can perform such a tightly controlled experiment, colliding particles made of one, two, and...
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"Thank God for the Atom Bomb”
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blog ^
| August 1981 | Paul Fussell
Arthur T. Hadley said recently that those for whom the use of the A-bomb was “wrong” seem to be implying “that it would have been better to allow thousands on thousands of American and Japanese infantrymen to die in honest hand-to-hand combat on the beaches than to drop those two bombs.” People
holding such views, he notes, “do not come from the ranks of society that produce infantrymen or pilots.” And there’s an eloquence problem: most of those with firsthand experience of the war at its worst were not elaborately educated people. Relatively inarticulate, most have remained silent about what...
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“Thank God for the Atom Bomb”
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TNR ^
| August 1981 | Paul Fussell
Many years ago in New York I saw on the side of a bus a whiskey ad I’ve remembered all this time. It’s
been for me a model of the short poem, and indeed I’ve come upon few short poems subsequently that exhibited more poetic talent. The ad consisted of two eleven-syllable lines of “verse,” thus: In life, experience is the great teacher. In Scotch, Teacher’s is the great experience. For present purposes we must jettison the second line (licking our lips, to be sure, as it disappears), leaving the first to register a principle whose banality suggests that it...
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Thank God for the Atom Bomb
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Hot Air ^
| May 24, 2012 | Libby Sternberg, Novelist
The title of this short piece is actually the title of an essay by Paul Fussell, the writer, literary and cultural critic who just passed away at the age of 88. His
New York Times obituary notes his “withering scorn for the romanticization of war,” which was due, in part, to his own experience of battle in World War II as an infantryman wounded in southeastern France. His most well-known book is probably The Great War and Modern Memory (about World War I), of which Steven Hayward at Power Line says: Fussell managed the extraordinary feat of weaving together a...
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Giving Thanks For The Atom Bomb
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Townhall.com ^
| November 29, 2014 | John Nantz
Coal, black gold torn from the midnight depths of earth’s suffocating dungeons. Crude
oil, harvested from below the pulverizing weight of Neptune’s anxious and relentless sea. Steel, birthed from lakes of fire tamed to cauldrons and bent to the will of man. Led, smelted and teased by the alchemy of time and patience. The atom, the lightning bolt of Zeus wrenched from his grip by the titans of theoretical physics. I give thanks for all these things. Only two atomic bombs have ever been used in the prosecution of war. The first bomb, called Little Boy, fell on the Japanese...
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Traditionis Custodes: The New Atom Bomb
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The Remnant Newspaper ^
| July 16, 2021 | Peter A. Kwasniewski
Traditionis Custodes: The New Atom BombSeventy-six years ago, on July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was detonated in a lonely desert 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Today, on July 16, 2021, Pope Francis has dropped an atom bomb on the Catholic Church that will harm not just those
who “adhere to the Latin liturgical tradition” but everyone who values continuity and coherence, reverence and beauty, our heritage and our future.The document is dripping with condescension and heartlessness, designed like a Swiss Army knife to equip bishops with as many ways of inconveniencing or hounding tradition-loving Catholics...
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IBM somehow crammed data into a single atom
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CNET ^
| March 8, 2017 | Stephen Shankland
​In the never-ending quest to improve computing technology, IBM has just taken a big step smaller: It's found a way to store data on a single atom. A
hard drive today takes about 100,000 atoms to store a single bit of data -- a 1 or 0. The IBM Research results announced Wednesday show how much more densely it might someday be possible to cram information. How much more densely? Today, you can fit your personal music library into a storage device the size of a penny. With IBM's technique, you could fit Apple's entire music catalog of 26 million...
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Splitting the atom’s supply chain
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Asia Times ^
Uranium enrichment and the nuclear fuel industry make up a globally integrated complex concentrated in the hands of a few key players. A
geopolitically-driven divorce is on the horizon, however. At the outset of the invasion of Ukraine last year, US Senator John Barrasso, a Republican of Wyoming, led an effort to ban Russian-origin uranium and nuclear products following the West’s break with the fossil fuel industries that had been filling the Kremlin’s war chest. The bill stalled, but it highlighted America’s reliance on Russian nuclear imports and the need for a comprehensive supply chain rework. When countries are already...
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Pope Says Parents Cried Over Atom Bombings
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Crux ^
| 11/25/19 | AP
TOKYO - Pope Francis has told Japanese Emperor Naruhito that he remembers seeing his parents cry over the news of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 74 years ago. The
pope traveled on Sunday to the two Japanese cities, where he urged world powers to renounce their nuclear arsenals and declared the use and possession of atomic bombs an “immoral” crime. Palace officials say the pope told the emperor on Monday that he recalled the memory of his parent’s sorrow when he addressed survivors of the atomic bombings in the two cities. Naruhito told Francis that he has high...
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Scientists Just Made a Lightbulb That’s One Atom Thick
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Daily Beast ^
| 06.19.15 | G. Clay Whittaker
By creating a filament that glows bright enough to be seen by the naked eye, a team at Columbia may have finally found a use for graphene—and it could change the future of computers. It’s
a finding that may change the way computers function in the coming decade. Scientists at Columbia University have created a graphene filament that glows bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. It’s a massive step in finding a practical use for the material, which could make its way into microchips, displays, lightbulbs, and optical networks with everyday application. James Hone, who leads the...
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There's a giant mystery hiding inside every atom in the universe
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FOX News ^
| 01/06/2019 | By Rafi Letzter
No one really knows what happens inside an atom. But
two competing groups of scientists think they've figured it out. And both are racing to prove that their own vision is correct. Here's what we know for sure: Electrons whiz around "orbitals" in an atom's outer shell. Then there's a whole lot of empty space. And then, right in the center of that space, there's a tiny nucleus — a dense knot of protons and neutrons that give the atom most of its mass. Those protons and neutrons cluster together, bound by what's called the strong force. And the numbers...
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Here's why the pilot of Enola Gay had no regrets about dropping the first atom bomb
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Task & Purpose ^
| Aug 6, 2022 | Tom Porter
Early in the morning of August 6, 1945, a U.S. Air Force B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off from the its base in Tinian, near Guam, and headed for the city of Hiroshima in southern Japan. It was carrying a 9,700 top-secret bomb named Little Boy. Its pilot was Col. Paul
W. Tibbets Jr., who led a crew of 12 men on a mission that would change the history of the world....... Pilot Tibbetts Jr and other crew members believed to the end of their lives that the bomb was necessary — and they say that it ultimately saved...
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The possible explaining of some controversial
effects by a vortexial atom model
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Physics & Astronomy International Journal ^
| May 2020 | Marius Arghirescu
The possible explaining of some controversial effects by a vortexial atom model Volume 4 Issue 2 - 2020 Marius Arghirescu State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, Patents Department, Romania Correspondence: Marius Arghirescu, State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, Patents Department; Romania, Published: April 30, 2020 Abstract In the paper is presented a
vortexial pre-quantum model of atom, based on a vortexial type of electron’ and proton’ magnetic moment, resulted in a cold genesis theory(CGT) as etherono-quantonic vortex ( ) * B r (r ’) (r r ’), Γ =Γ +Γ > µ µµ µ of heavy’ tachyonic etherons (ms ≈10-60...
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World's First X-Ray of a Single Atom Reveals Chemistry on The Smallest Level
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Science Alert ^
| 01 June 2023 | By MICHELLE STARR
Supramolecular assemblies of six rubidium and one iron atom. Scanning
tunneling microscopy revealed the clear signal of the one iron atom. (Ajayi et al., Nature, 2023) **************************************** Atoms may not have bones, but we still want to know how they are put together. These tiny particles are the basis on which all normal matter is built (including our bones), and understanding them helps us understand the larger Universe. We currently use high-energy X-ray light to help us understand atoms and molecules and how they're arranged, catching diffracted beams to reconstruct their configurations in crystal form. Now, scientists have used X-rays...
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Trinity Test Anniversary Has Different Meaning for 'Down-Winders' (Atom Bomb)
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KOAT ^
| Jul 16, 2015 | Kirsten Swanson
1945 explosion lit up NM sky The world changed 70 years ago Thursday, when scientists in New Mexico successfully tested the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo. Though the success of the Trinity Test is a scientific milestone, some say they paid a heavy price for history. It
was July 16, 1945, when an explosion lit up the sky above the White Sands Missile Range. The blast was a test of the world's first atomic bomb, developed and detonated in the Land of Enchantment. "It was actually amazing, because in a very short period of time, essentially about three years,...
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MIT’s New 5-Atom Quantum Computer Could Make Today’s Encryption Obsolete
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Cryptogon ^
| March 6, 2016
"all you have to do is go in the lab, apply more technology, and you should be able to make a bigger quantum computer" So the only thing preventing a more general purpose quantum computer is money and enough engineers... Hmm... (POLL-AT-LINK) Via: PC World: Much of the encryption world today depends
on the challenge of factoring large numbers, but scientists now say they've created the first five-atom quantum computer with the potential to crack the security of traditional encryption schemes. In traditional computing, numbers are represented by either 0s or 1s, but quantum computing relies on atomic-scale units, or...
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Source: Eric ("Atom Bomb") Swalwell to run for president in 2020
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The Politico ^
| November 8, 2018 | Alex Thompson
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell plans to run for president in 2020, according to a person close to the California congressman who is familiar with his plans. “He’s
definitely running,” the source said. This weekend, Swalwell will be the first potential presidential candidate to visit Iowa after the midterms with a trip to meet the Asian & Latino Coalition in Des Moines and Iowa Democratic Party chairs in Dubuque. The travel to Iowa was first reported by NBC News and confirmed by POLITICO. The 37-year-old Swalwell has been positioning himself for a run over the past year, with several trips to...
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Atom smasher will renew hunt for strange particles in 2015
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foxnews.com ^
Now, the LHC is set to return in 2015 nearly twice as powerful as its first run from 2010 to 2013. "Doubling
the energy will have a huge impact on the search for new particles at LHC," said experimental particle physicist Gabriella Sciolla, of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, who works on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. "The higher the energy, the heavier the particle one can possibly produce."
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Iran had 'coordinated effort' relevant to atom bombs: IAEA
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Reuters ^
| 12-2-2015 | Francois Murphy and Shadia Nasralla
The U.N. atomic watchdog on Wednesday issued a report strongly suggesting Tehran had a nuclear weapons program for years, but, in a sign of the shift in ties since Tehran's deal with major powers in July, Washington said it was not concerned. Under
that agreement, also reached with France, Britain, Germany, China, and Russia, sanctions against Tehran will be lifted in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear activities, which the United States long said were linked to weapons. In a report required under that deal, titled "Final Assessment of Past and Present Outstanding Issues Regarding Iran's Nuclear Programme", the International...
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Diamond data storage breakthrough writes and rewrites down to single atom
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https://newatlas.com/ ^
| December 05, 2023 | Michael Irving
Diamond is a promising material for data storage, and now scientists have demonstrated a new way to cram even more data onto it, down to a single atom. The
technique bypasses a physical limit by writing data to the same spots in different-colored light. Diamond has great potential as a data storage medium – recent developments have produced 2-inch (5-cm) wafers of the stuff that can store the equivalent of a billion Blu-Ray discs. Intriguingly, it works not by writing data to the diamond itself but to tiny nitrogen defects in the material. These defects can absorb light, earning them...
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