It's All About the Ununpentium

spitefulcrow writes "The New York Times is reporting that elements 113 and 115 have been created by a joint team of Russian and American scientists. The temporary names are ununtrium and ununpentium until the experiment has been duplicated and verified in another lab. According to the article, speculation has been made that 'Rather than being round, nuclei in that region and beyond could contain bubbles and have strange doughnut-like shapes'."

ooooh..me first

[Ralph Wiggam]

mmmmmm....mini-doughnuts..

-B

Obligatory Simpsons Reference #1F04

[The-Bus]

Mmmmm... Forbidden ununpentium....

The 115th Element

[AtariAmarok]

I'm sure there will be a movie about it. Bruce Willis the cab-driver and his girlfriend who wears nothing but ductape, all over again.

Sorry, couldn't resist...

[locknloll]

...but when are we going to have the ununceleron, ununathlon, ununopteron & ununitanium?

Is it early un-un-Pentium?

[i_want_you_to_throw_]

Cuz if it is
Laboratory tests prove the new element can't divide or multiply.

New Intel Chip?

[Limburgher]

I mean, if AMD makes the UnPentium, by extension, Intel would make the UnUnPentium.

Unless then meant that Macs are the UnPentium. In which case the above still holds. :)

Un-Un-Pentium is just Pentium right?

[APonBass]

That's not a new element, that's an old Intel chip!

Copyright Violation

[Microlith]

Can Intel now sue Mendeleev for trademark violation?

This will be a black mark on the physics community for sure...

Re:Science Today

[flynt]

I for one salute our science community. Keep up the good work folks.

The science community thanks you for your support. We are currently accepting cash donations.

It's pronounced "nuc-u-lar"

[da3dAlus]

Virgil:All right, then. For half a million dollars, which of the following is not a subatomic particle?
Moe:Oy.
Virgil:
A) Proton
B) Neutron
C) Bonbon, or
D) Electron
Moe:Oh, boy. All right, let's see here, uh ... well, I was born in Indiana, so that ain't it. And, uh, hmmm ... I'd better call my lifeline.
...
Homer:Well, it all starts when a nulicule comes out of its nest.
Lisa:[taking the phone] The answer is "bonbon!"
Moe:Uh, I'm going to say, "bonbon."

Yet another Pentium joke

[tgeller]

The ununpentium: Element number 114.9999659899937582.

I wish they'd just stop

[corebreech]

We're looking for a stable heavy element. My question is, "Why?"

I mean, as if things weren't already fucked up enough, we actually have people working to bring into this world something which has never existed. And the consequences? Apparently nobody gives a shit.

Haven't these guys ever played DOOM? Or watched Event Horizon? I'd feel a lot safer if their creativity was tinged with a healthy dose of fear.

Protective alright...

[AtariAmarok]

The only thing that girl's bandagewear could have possibly protected against was an NC-17 rating.

Naming new elements...

[WIAKywbfatw]

According to the article, speculation has been made that 'Rather than being round, nuclei in that region and beyond could contain bubbles and have strange doughnut-like shapes'.

Containing bubbles and doughnut-like shapes? I say they should be called Duffium and Homerium.

Re:I wish they'd just stop

[trmj]

Haven't these guys ever played DOOM?

If you will remember correctly, that doesn't happen until we put stuff on mars... oh.

Am I the only one who misread?

[eet23]

I thought the scientists had lost count and just called it umpteenium.

I don't care what they call it.

[The Creator]

I will always call element 115 Elerium.

You're not the only one

[shayne321]

I misread it as unimportium, which seems to fit for these type of elements.

Re:Science Today

[McAddress]

The science community thanks you for your support. We are currently accepting cash donations

i for one support our new science community overlords.

Re:Sorry, couldn't resist...

[originalTMAN]

you mean ununfunion

Re:Science Today

[Anonymous Coward]

If the article is right about them being strangely shaped

Doughnut-shaped stuff will be THE SHIT in the coming years. I mean, if you closely follow some of the last releases from the so called science community, you start to notice a pattern:

Scientist: I've found out something new about how the universe works!
People: Oh, well. How great for you.
Scientist: And, uh, it might by doughnut-shaped!
People: Aaaahhhhh! Oooooohhh!

Scientist: I've found a new element!
People: Big deal.
Scientist: And its nucleus might be doughnut-shaped or something!
People: Aaaahhhhh! Oooooohhh!

Unintel Inside?

[`Sean]

I was going to attempt a witty remark about Unintel Inside, but couldn't pull it off...

Re:I'm still waiting..

[Josh Booth]

I wonder if the new chemical elements have coffee cup electron orbitals to go with their doughnut nuclei.

Unobtainium

[panurge]

Nice one in the header. For those who don't know, unobtainium was the superdense metal needed to make the balance weights for the crankshafts of single cylinder motorcycle engines with unfeasibly small flywheels. Then the Japanese came along and reinvented balance shafts.

There's probably a perfectly simple way to make superheavy elements, too. We just need to get the quarks and the gluons into separate bottles, then just weigh the ingredients and get out the Magimix. All this colliding heavy nuclei at high speed may look good and make for big budgets, but all real progress is made with test tubes and Bunsen burners.

Re:The 115th Element

[giminy]

That movie is going to have to star a real fat opera-singing chick.

I already have an unpentium

[spectasaurus]

It's called an Athlon.

Re:What's the point ?

[spectasaurus]

Cheaper anti-matter? Where are you buying yours from that it's so expensive? I get mine wholesale at rockbottom prices. Shop around.

Re:ooooh..me first

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

I call it a Hawking-donut. It was my idea.

/Hawking

Re:I don't care what they call it.

[Chaset]

That's funny. In my fit of retro-gaming, I had JUST finished a session of XCOM:EU a minute ago and fired up the browser to see this. It's still a good game, and one of the reasons I keep this Cyrix/200 box around.

Re:Playing Dice with the Universe

[madpierre]

1000000 BC: Ug, rock rock *BAM* *BAM* ug!

2004 AD: Ug, nucleon nucleon *BAM* *BAM* ug!

Wrong Name

[DDumitru]

I thought it was supposed to be called:

Unobtainium

or

Reallyexpensium

Re:Science Today

[PacoTaco]

"To allow us to continue colliding atomic nuclei at high speeds, please click the PayPal link below."

Obligatory IP joke

[t0ny]

ununpentium

Intel has their lawyers on standby, waiting to file a trademark infringement suit.

Re:Protective alright...

[merlin_jim]

The only thing that girl's bandagewear could have possibly protected against was an NC-17 rating.

And let me say that that was a dangerous rating that I, for one, would have been willing to brave.

Oh yes I am a bastion of courage.