Physicists Say Graphene Could Create Mass 184
eldavojohn writes "Graphene has gotten a lot of press lately. The Nobel prize-winning, fastest-spinning, nanobubble-enhanced silicon replacement is theorized to have a new, more outlandish property. As reported by Technology Review's Physics Blog, graphene should be able to create mass inside properly formed nanotubes. According to Abdulaziz Alhaidari's calculations, if one were to roll up graphene into a nanotube, this could compactifiy dimensions (from the sheet's two down to the tube's one), and thus 'the massless equations that describe the behavior of electrons and holes will change to include a term for mass. In effect, compactifying dimensions creates mass.' What once would require a massive high-energy particle accelerator can now be tested with carbon, electricity, and wires, according to the recent paper."
A new particle (Score:5, Funny)
Scientists have now isolated the particle that causes this strange mass inducing effect, and have dubbed it the "YoMamma".
We call it (Score:5, Funny)
the Mass Effect.
LOL, goodbye LHC! (Score:1, Funny)
Nice to see one man's calculations relegate mankind's most advanced and complicated machine to obsolescence.
Re:Can anybody summarize TFA? (Score:5, Funny)
I think they're just claiming the mass they expect to make next year, assuming they'll balance their mass sheets at that point?
Re:Obviously a weapon of graphene distruction (Score:1, Funny)
except... all but one of them work in/for Saudi Arabia?!
Re:Compactify? Yes, it's a real word. Sigh. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Analogy is not identity! (Score:4, Funny)
Sheldon?
Dr. Sheldon Cooper?
Is that you?
Re:Abdulaziz Alhaidari (Score:2, Funny)
He's not a Muslim, you dumbass. Anyone can extrapolate from his name that he's clearly Japanese.
Re:Not 1-dimensional (Score:4, Funny)
And if you squeeze the nanotube very, very hard, it disappears!
Re:Can anybody summarize TFA? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's called our circle of science! (Score:5, Funny)
If there's a physicist out there, I get the impression that somehow leptons are being converted to fermions?
When life hands you leptons, make leptonaide.
Indeed, I'm not a physicist. How'd you guess?
Re:Can anybody summarize TFA? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's called our circle of science! (Score:4, Funny)
Indeed, I'm not a physicist. How'd you guess?
Um, your user name?
Re:Can anybody summarize TFA? (Score:3, Funny)
No, more like a Catholic priest. They create mass from hot air, holy water, some wine and a cracker, don't they?
Physics can't do that!
Re:This phenomenon closely related to: (Score:4, Funny)
Time to start stapling bacon to cats.
Re:A new particle (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A new particle (Score:4, Funny)
You just Bushified the conversationalism.