Scientists Claim New State of Matter Created

LiveScience ^ | 7-29-2009 | LiveScience Staff

[Westlander]

Scientists claim to have created a form of aluminum that's nearly transparent to extreme ultraviolet radiation and which is a new state of matter.

It's an idea straight out of science fiction, featured in the movie "Star Trek IV."

Fusion is a dream of scientists who would create cheap and plentiful power by fusing atoms together, as opposed to nuclear fission that generates electricity today.

[Westlander]

[fieldmarshaldj]

Looks like Dr. Nichols is finally going to be rich beyond the dreams of avarice...

[Sgt_Schultze]

Now if we could only find out about those dilithium crystals.

[BenLurkin]

How fast are those neutrons going as they come out?

[BenLurkin]

How fast are those neutrons going as they come out?

[SunkenCiv]

:') It'll revolutionize data storage. ;') Bigger capacity optical disks... ;') Anyway, another about Transparent Aluminum. "Why? How do we know he didn't invent the thing?"

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[AdmSmith]

The article above does not give a correct description, their work it is not about fusion.

With one electron removed, the remaining electrons around each ion settle into a different configuration, becoming too tightly bound for the laser to remove them. That means the X-ray photons can no longer be easily absorbed, and they fly straight through the material, making the previously opaque aluminium transparent to X-rays.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327196.000-transparent-metal-could-be-the-stuff-of-giant-planets.html

Here is an article from April with calculations based on their ideas. When they tested it some surprising things were seen. Nice work!

http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0100

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl