[Ben Mugged]

Doesn't a moebus strip make this same transformation?

[Red Badger]

Look Ma! No HANS!.............

[kinoxi]

If this can be replicated...
WOW

[BipolarBob]

just when we thought we had reached an understanding of the quantum nature of its magnetic BEC."

How many times have I said this, I've lost count. That's how tricky the little buggers are.

[Red Badger]

Purple Haze

Jimi Hendrix {cough? }

Lately things just dont seem the same

Actin funny, but I dont know why

scuse me while I kiss the sky

Purple haze all around

Dont know if Im comin up or down

Am I happy or in misery?

What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me

Help me

Help me

Oh, no, no

[faint, spoken lyrics...all questionable]

Hammerin

Talkin bout heart n...s-soul

Im talkin about hard stuff

If everbodys still around, fluff and ease, if

So far out my mind

Somethings happening, somethings happening

Ooo, ahhh

Ooo, {click} ahhh,

Ooo, ahhh

Ooo, ahhh, yeah!

Purple haze all in my eyes, uhh

Dont know if its day or night

You got me blowin, blowin my mind

Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?

Ooo

Help me

Ahh, yea-yeah, purple haze, yeah

Oh, no, oh

Oh, help me

Purple haze, tell me, baby, tell me

I cant go on like this

Purple haze

Youre makin me blow my mind...mama

Purple haze, n-no, nooo

Purple haze, no, its painful, baby

[Andy28]

Interesting.. Could be worth watching, see what comes out of it.

[QwertyKPH]

Don't think of this as a loss of a dimension. I read the complete article. It sounds to me as if they've figured out means by which they can control the direction in which magnetic energy flows.

With that capability, who knows what could be developed?

[#1CTYankee]

Now how can I go to sleep at night?

[Tennessee_Bob]

Bose Einstein condensate (BEC)

And they make awesome speakers too! You hear the music before it gets written. I'm listening to the radio in the year 2032 right now. And no, I won't tell you who won the World Series. I'm saving that information for myself.

[martin_fierro]

Ping

[Paradox]

I wonder what this does to the power or strength of the wave, does it cease to vary by the distance cubed, and become dependent on distance squared? What are the ramifications....

[Disambiguator]

"I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time."

Steven Wright

[ElkGroveDan]

Careful, you mess with stuff like this and aliens from another dimension are liable to lay their eggs in your warp core.

The Romulans can tell you all about it.

[Brilliant]

"the magnetic waves go from a three-dimensional to a two-dimensional pattern."



And how, exactly, to they determine this?

[12th_Monkey]

So what, DemocRATS have been one dimensional for years!

[ex-Texan]

"Raiders of the Lost Dimension"

Are these raiders like shape shifting beings from another world in Dimension SIX? (666 becomes Six Six Six). I heard a rumor that these shape shifting beings now control the entire world. They control politics, wage wars and run economic systems to benefit themselves. America is being run like a huge plantation. We are all just worker bees in the great hive. The U.S. will become The North American Union. Canada will be linked by super highways to Mexico. The illegal drug trade will increase, not decrease. Billions in illegal profits will become trillions. The U.S. dollar will fade away to become "The Amero."

< / sarcasm>

[kanawa]

Placemarker for earlier.

[Leatherneck_MT]

The LACK of knowledge we have of the workings of this universe cannot be adequately measured.

[timer]

Two dimensionality? Look up cheniere.org for Deborah Chung's room temperature superconductor. It converts ambient heat into electric current automatically between layers of high pressure laminate. It has reverse resistance, a seeming violation of the 2nd law of TD, but there it is, demonstrated in the lab just as this is. Then, no sooner is it announced than the University shuts it down on orders from DC(controlling vested interests)....Which is the greater addiction? Our dependence(ala big oil)on foreign oil, or the government's fuel taxing LUST? The love of money is the root of all evil....

[Rev DMV]

I wonder why they used this particular material?

[Ben Mugged]

Han purple was used more than 2,000 years ago to color Xi'an terra cotta warriors of the Qian Dynasty. The pigment is known in the scientific world as BaCuSi206 -- and when magnet lab scientists exposed it to very high magnetic fields and very low temperatures, it entered a state of matter that is rarely observed.

The most recent research, published in today's issue of the journal Nature, shows that at the lowest temperature point at which the change of state occurs -- called the Quantum Critical Point -- the Han purple pigment actually loses a dimension: it goes from 3D to 2D.

Theoretical physicists have postulated that this kind of dimensional reduction might help explain some mysterious properties of other materials (high temperature superconductors and metallic magnets known as "heavy fermions" for example) near the absolute zero of temperature, but until now, a change in dimension had not been experimentally observed.

We live in three dimensions; up-down, front-back and left-right are the options. A sound wave, for example, "exists" in three dimensions and propagates in all of these directions simultaneously. If we could take a picture it would look like an expanding balloon. A wave in two dimensions looks like ripples on the surface of a pond. Ripples propagate on the surface only; they don't propagate perpendicular to the surface, which is the third dimension.

"As often happens in science, we found something we weren't looking for," said Marcelo Jaime, an experimental physicist at the magnet lab's Pulsed Field Facility in Los Alamos, N.M. "Much to our surprise, we found that when the temperature is low enough, the transition into the new magnetic state occurs in an unexpected way."

The experiment was performed at the magnet lab's DC Field Facility at Florida State University by Neil Harrison from the Pulsed Field Facility and Suchitra Sebastian from Stanford University, in collaboration with a team of scientists from these institutions.

They observed that at high magnetic fields (above 23 tesla) and temperatures between 1 and 3 degrees Kelvin (approximately -460 degrees Fahrenheit), the magnetic waves in three-dimensional crystals of Han purple "exist" in a three-dimensional world as per conventional wisdom. However, below those temperatures, near the quantum limit, one of the dimensions is no longer accessible, with the unexpected consequence that magnetic ripples propagate in only two dimensions. (Kelvin is the temperature scale used by scientists; zero degrees Kelvin is absolute zero, a temperature so low it is experimentally unreachable.)