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Anonymous Coward User ID: 71433356 United States 04/24/2018 12:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.sciencealert.com (secure)] And we are going to try and control YSNPthe sun next |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 35799703 United States 04/24/2018 12:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Does this mean they can combine say zinc and Indium atoms creating one alloy atom equivalent to gold? same 79 protons. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 44753432 Alchemy. Yes they can. The USA has been doing it for awhile. up to now, only smashing atoms with high energy Neutrons has been successful in Transmutation of the Elements. the method being discussed in OP's article is about making Clone Molecules out of otherwise naturally incompatible Elements (Atoms) . i'm still hoping they will make a breakthrough, and get shitloads of Energy out of Cold Fusion. . |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 71433356 United States 04/24/2018 12:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | When individual constituents can be brought together, and molecules can be assembled or disassembled under fully quantum mechanical processes, then we have gained a full control of chemistry. The current experiment represents a solid step towards these goals.’ The team suggests that it might now be possible to create other bi-atomic molecules that go beyond what is essentially an alloy of two alkali metals. Such molecules would, as does the NaCs molecule, exist in a single quantum state. This might make them useful as qubits – the quantum equivalent of bits in a conventional computer – in a quantum computer, where a vast array of traps and tweezers could be used to create a three-dimensional array of qubits. [link to www.chemistryworld.com (secure)] I would say we are beyond Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 72726126 United States 04/24/2018 01:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Basically they have created an "Alloy" (combination material) out of 2 different elements that would normally not combine. They created a molecule from two different elements that would not normally combine, by creating exceptionally abnormal conditions. Really, this isn't a breakthrough at all. All it means is they were mistaken about the bonds forming. Just like Nitrogen is mostly inert except at high energies (doesn't form oxides unless under extreme heat or pressure). YAWN |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 63928440 United States 04/24/2018 01:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Try taking your thinking one step further. How about plenty of everything for everyone? Does this mean they can combine say zinc and Indium atoms creating one alloy atom equivalent to gold? same 79 protons. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 44753432 Alchemy. Bitcoin is going to skyrocket! i like your thinking. What use is gold if any fool can create a mountain of it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 35799703 United States 04/24/2018 01:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's the richness of molecular diversity! Just remember, you only force diversity on your slaves. And as we develop technology, the elements are for us to use. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76341124 Scientists will accidentally discover a totally new source of Energy, other than boiling water with wires and magnets to make Electricity. . |
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User ID: 75863275 United States 04/24/2018 01:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Incelium and Chadolinium copulate Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76509998 in the sack to shock the world. That some funny(and creative) shit right there Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. Sam Houston "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 44753432 United Kingdom 04/24/2018 01:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Try taking your thinking one step further. How about plenty of everything for everyone? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63928440 Does this mean they can combine say zinc and Indium atoms creating one alloy atom equivalent to gold? same 79 protons. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 44753432 Alchemy. Bitcoin is going to skyrocket! i like your thinking. What use is gold if any fool can create a mountain of it. However this is not anywhere near a star trek replicator or nano technology... Creating a cup of tea atom by atom for example, would take millions or billions of years, there are 10^27 atoms in a cup of tea. Theres always a major speed bottleneck. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 51522520 United States 04/24/2018 01:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Basically they have created an "Alloy" (combination material) out of 2 different elements that would normally not combine. Taking that concept or process further it might be possible to create as many new combination materials as you could dream up, like say, Hydrogen copper, or Neon Helium. Plus maybe a few useful ones, lol. Now, sodium and cesium metals are pretty close to each other in their atomic structure, but if they could make close elements work, perhaps they could make not so close elements work as well. Like say if they could take aluminum and combine that with say beryllium, they might be able to create a new molecular structured aluminum that would be supper strong, as strong as titanium, while retaining the lightness of aluminum. Kind of like genetic engineering for materials. Unless one of these combos will give me spider powers I'm not interested. |
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User ID: 39561079 United States 04/24/2018 01:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Let's say a sodium atom is a monkey and a caesium atom is an alligator. Normally, you cannot get a monkey and alligator to coexist together side by side, it just doesn't work. Now, they have successfully trained a monkey to ride the alligator without the alligator chasing the monkey away (or eating it). I guess that is simple enough... DOOM is what you make of it. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 38388680 United States 04/24/2018 01:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | From what I can understand, some dude figured out how to use plasma and light to manipulate the harmonic frequencies of atoms in two different elements, which made the two things alike enough that they combined into a new metal/substance. The implications here are that there is now a new way to make new forms of alloys that would otherwise be impossible to create, and that these alloys would have unique properties that open the door to new technologies. |
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User ID: 76510745 United States 04/24/2018 01:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Basically they have created an "Alloy" (combination material) out of 2 different elements that would normally not combine. Taking that concept or process further it might be possible to create as many new combination materials as you could dream up, like say, Hydrogen copper, or Neon Helium. Plus maybe a few useful ones, lol. Now, sodium and cesium metals are pretty close to each other in their atomic structure, but if they could make close elements work, perhaps they could make not so close elements work as well. Like say if they could take aluminum and combine that with say beryllium, they might be able to create a new molecular structured aluminum that would be supper strong, as strong as titanium, while retaining the lightness of aluminum. Kind of like genetic engineering for materials. ...or changing radio active elements into non-lethal salts ? "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." Albert Einstein. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 35799703 United States 04/24/2018 01:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Guys this is not huge, unless they can construct materials in bulk on a macro scale, that means manipulating qunitilions and quintillions of atoms. You are all missing the speed bottleneck. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 44753432 once they perfect the process, they simply scale it up, like they do everything else. but, of course, they may end up not being able to scale it up (like Cold Fusion). but, that happens too. . |
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User ID: 76509844 United States 04/24/2018 01:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Chemical reactions are known for their ‘stochastic’ encounters between elements that too if they are a decent match. But what if scientists want an exotic pairing of elements? What if scientists want a molecule which can be obtained by the atoms of elements which wouldn’t normally form a molecule? The way of seeing and performing chemical reactions may change drastically from now on as researchers from the US have just performed the world’s most precisely controlled chemical reaction scaling a reaction down as small as it can go, sticking together just two atoms from elements that wouldn’t normally form a molecule. Chemical reactions normally proceed through the random collisions of particles and are usually hit-and-miss affairs, where vast numbers of atoms are thrown together under the right conditions, and probability does the rest. Quoting: Face Palmer Laboratories in the past have created molecules by combining clusters of atoms, and the reactions were then measured in terms of averages. The goal was to gain additional insights on how molecules interact and to enable controls for reaction chemistry and design new quantum materials. A team of Harvard University researchers under the leadership of Kang-Kueng Ni began with just one atom of Sodium and Caesium each. They used laser ‘tweezers’ to set them to the different frequencies depending on their polarizabilities to manipulate individual atoms of these two alkali metals into close proximity, and provided a photon to help them bond into a single molecule. It is known as a ‘Photo Association’ reaction. An interesting alloy like molecule was produced by these atoms. The method of creation used could pave a way to a much better understanding of reactions and this could lead to the kind of materials we might need in the future. Researchers say the discovery holds great promise for the future of quantum computing as the dipolar molecule constitutes a new type of qubit, the smallest unit of quantum information, which could lead to more-efficient devices in the future. The lead researcher, Kang Kueng Ni, said, “The direction of quantum information processing is one of the things we’re excited about.” If these two atoms happen to be close enough with the right energy, a connection can be formed no matter how improbable it sounds but it doesn’t seem impossible. [link to www.absolute-knowledge.com] Another great and interesting find Face. :) :) |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76442138 United States 04/24/2018 01:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Basically they have created an "Alloy" (combination material) out of 2 different elements that would normally not combine. Taking that concept or process further it might be possible to create as many new combination materials as you could dream up, like say, Hydrogen copper, or Neon Helium. Plus maybe a few useful ones, lol. Now, sodium and cesium metals are pretty close to each other in their atomic structure, but if they could make close elements work, perhaps they could make not so close elements work as well. Like say if they could take aluminum and combine that with say beryllium, they might be able to create a new molecular structured aluminum that would be supper strong, as strong as titanium, while retaining the lightness of aluminum. Kind of like genetic engineering for materials. sounds like the metal from the roswell crash. |
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