1888

That is amazing and awesome and it really sucks that I can’t help but think about how corporate America is going to abuse the shit out of that tech when it’s more mature.

1889

More than 4+1 nucleotides? Cool!

1890

This seems like a potentially significant advance. The magnet works up to 100 C instead of requiring cooler temps, a big deal for electronics uses. And being so thin, you can fit a lot of them into a small space. The article has some descriptions of how it might be use to improve data storage technology.

1891

Now they just have to make it one atom thick in the other two dimensions and we’ll finally have the monopole!

1892

Electrons have dipole moments due to both their “spin” and their “orbit” around the nucleus. A single atom has a dipole field, just like everything else.

1893

Spoilsport.

1894

It might be on your wall right now!

1895

If my walls were painted like that, I’d welcome a chameleon to live there.

1896

One of the main challenges, according to the Swiss team, was the amount of memory that was needed to achieve such a large calculation. DAViS’s high-performance computer was set up with two AMD Epyc 7542 processors coupled with 1TB of RAM, which isn’t sufficient to hold all of the digits they were aiming to come up with. The y-cruncher program, therefore, was used to swap out the digits to an additional 38 hard disk drives (HDD) with a total 16TB of storage space, saving a large part of the RAM on the HDDs.

1897

Incredible - the entire plant is one big cell.

1898

You know why science is occasionally not awesome? Einstein and Tesla could have had a baby and that baby would still not be able to design a string trimmer head that could be reloaded with string absent a Herculean effort. FFS, can we figure this out please?

1899

Oh come on, just put one end in the little hole at the base of the head. Child’s play.

1900

Like that? I think I hand wound mine with the cap off but looking at this it seems easier than what I did

1901

That’s the model, I followed the directions and did it with the cap back on, and man it was hard to turn. Had to use a strap wrench.

1902

Did you push it down like the guy in the video did with each turn?

1903

I didn’t want to start a new thread, but I have a deep dark physics question after watching this excellent video:

At one point he says that there would be a charge interaction if you actually got close enough to a neutron, rather than what I would have thought which would be it’s restricted to a kinetic reaction. From what I gathered:

  1. Neutrons are slightly heavier than protons because they integrate the mass/charge of a proton with the mass/charge of an electron, more or less, making them neutral. I assume that wanders down into sub-baryonic levels of stuff I can’t even grok like quarks.
  2. If they have a charge interaction at some point of proximity, does that come from an asymmetry in their composition, like at a higher level where a water molecule looks like Mickey Mouse’s head and thus has a strong positive side and negative side, which is why water is so sticky?
1904

Small World Photography contest announced results

1st place was this image of an oak leaf

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1905

This feels scienc-y and awesome-ish.

1906

I can think of a couple other things they could track.

1907

How dare you imagine an unexpected consequence of new technology! Scientists should never concern themselves with the “should we” question, only the “can we” question!