Large Hardon Collider

[Kaylia]

Halp BG


TR4NiMg
La11Cu9Mh81
Gd13Ni9.5Mg77.5


The numbers might be wrong, but are they hybrid metal? Chemistry stuff confuse me.

[Eliseos]

Miz, found something today you might enjoy (picture of ice walls on Mars):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ed-Planet.html

Spoiler: show

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...68_964x871.jpg

[Mizango]

Holy cow, that's beautiful. Where/how did you find that? That's funny because Ive been looking for a new wallpaper, you rock.

[Max™]

Halp BG


TR4NiMg
La11Cu9Mh81
Gd13Ni9.5Mg77.5


The numbers might be wrong, but are they hybrid metal? Chemistry stuff confuse me.

TR4 I don't recognize. Nickel, Magnesium, Lanthanum, Copper, Mh?, Gadolinium, Nickel, Magnesium

Besides the TR4 and Mh (which might be a typo of Mg), I know Magnesium, Copper, and Nickel are all fairly alloyable, and I don't recall Lanth or Gado properties, but light metals tend to blend easily.

Is the TR4NiMg supposed to be the specific alloy/hybrid name?

[Eliseos]

Holy cow, that's beautiful. Where/how did you find that? That's funny because Ive been looking for a new wallpaper, you rock.

Someone told me to check out Pelosi's face on drudge, that article was one of the linked stories on it. There is also a story on the virgin galactic spaceship and the indian military weaponizing the world's spiciest pepper.

[Mizango]

Someone told me to check out Pelosi's face on drudge, that article was one of the linked stories on it. There is also a story on the virgin galactic spaceship and the indian military weaponizing the world's spiciest pepper.

lol Nice, whatever works. Its sad that we have to stumble upon great science articles.

[Eliseos]

SciAm released an article on their website about bose-einstein condensates. It details the experiment of detecting them. Haven't read the full article yet, but it sounds pretty interesting. Note: this is from 1998, they released it because the guy who wrote it was promoted it seems.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...ein-condensate

[Woozie]

This Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), the first observed in a gas, can be thought of as the matter counterpart of the laser

Hmm, I always thought of it as analogous to a superconductor.

[Max™]

A laser is a sharing of quantum states in a beam of light, a BEC is a shared state in a cloud of atoms, a superconductor involves specific paths becoming extremely low-cost ways to transfer charge due to things such as Cooper pairings.

[Woozie]

A lot of the physics and equations behind (non turbulent) fluids and those behind electrical conduction are very similar, just with different names attatched to everything. So when I learned about fluids, I thought of everything as analogs of electricity because it was easier to learn it that way (since I was already very comfortable with electricity).

In superconductors, electrons fall together to cause resistance to drop to zero. In superfluids, atoms come together to cause the resistance (called viscocity in fluids) to fall to zero. That's why I always thought of superfluids as the analog of superconductors. For my thermal physics class I had to do a huge research project on Bose-Einstein condensation and present it to the class, and I made these same comparisons in my presentation (we're required to take a lab class before thermal, and one of our labs is on superconductivity, so everyone there was already very familiar with superconductors, so I figured it would be easier to make these type of analogies).

[Eliseos]

When I was doing my research presentation last semester on superconductors, the book and other sources specifically used condensate also (and made an analogy to Bose-Einstein condensates). Like Woozie said, it had to do with how the electrons pair up.

[Max™]

Yeah, but with a superconductor it is akin to the electrons forming a condensate wherein they appear to share states, rather than the condensate behaving strictly as superconducting electrons do. The laser explanation isn't exactly accurate either, and neither are really more wrong than the other.

Just makes more sense to me to attribute the effects to the Bosonic nature (Cooper Pairs, Bose-Einstein Condensate) and the similarity to lasers, a familiar phenomenon due to Bose-Einstein statistics.

[Woozie]

Yeah, I know neither of the analogies is completely accurate, but to me, the superconductor analogy just seems more natural, especially considering the other analogies one can make between fluid flow and electric currents. Also, I see the superconductor analogy more often. This is the first time I've seen the laser analogy).

[Max™]

Really, that actually surprises me that the laser comparison isn't made more often with BEC's at least.

[Eliseos]

Happy Huygens discovers Titan day everyone.

[thebearofscience]

So... When is this happening? Let's go

[Woozie]

You're not TBoS. I don't see any shoes in your avatar.

[thebearofscience]

Shoes are no longer. I had to get a new avatar because when I was little... my father was famous. He was the greatest samurai in the empire; and he was the Shogun's decapitator. He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty-one lords. It was a bad time for the empire. The Shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out. People said his brain was infected by devils. My father would come home.. he would forget about the killings. He wasn't scared of the Shogun, but the Shogun was scared of him. Maybe that was the problem. Then, one night... the Shogun sent his ninja spies to our house. They were supposed to kill my father... but they didn't.

That was the night everything changed; I was forced to get a new avatar. And it reminded me of magus.

[Mizango]

Shoes are no longer. I had to get a new avatar because when I was little... my father was famous. He was the greatest samurai in the empire; and he was the Shogun's decapitator. He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty-one lords. It was a bad time for the empire. The Shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out. People said his brain was infected by devils. My father would come home.. he would forget about the killings. He wasn't scared of the Shogun, but the Shogun was scared of him. Maybe that was the problem. Then, one night... the Shogun sent his ninja spies to our house. They were supposed to kill my father... but they didn't.

That was the night everything changed; I was forced to get a new avatar. And it reminded me of magus.

Oh man, that post gave me a serious chub. I love Liquid Swords.

[Eliseos]

Shoes are no longer. I had to get a new avatar because when I was little... my father was famous. He was the greatest samurai in the empire; and he was the Shogun's decapitator. He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty-one lords. It was a bad time for the empire. The Shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out. People said his brain was infected by devils. My father would come home.. he would forget about the killings. He wasn't scared of the Shogun, but the Shogun was scared of him. Maybe that was the problem. Then, one night... the Shogun sent his ninja spies to our house. They were supposed to kill my father... but they didn't.

That was the night everything changed; I was forced to get a new avatar. And it reminded me of magus.

Sounds like Christianity is to blame.