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from the (sigh)-still-no-Puerto-Ricoton dept.
amblivious writes:
"Researchers investigating the creation of biexcitons noticed an unexpected drop in energy when creating multiple biexcitons in gallium arsenide, leading to the discovery of a new state of matter; the dropleton. Excitons are quasi-particles created when a photon knocks an electron loose from a material, causing an electron hole. If the forces of other charges nearby keep the electron close enough to the hole a state known as an exciton forms where the combined electron and hole act together as though they are a single particle. Biexcitons consist of two of these quasi-particles and collectively behave like a molecule. In this discovery several excitons are behaving together in a 'quantum fog' and behave like a droplet, hence the name.
See the article in Nature for more information."
(Score: 5, Funny) by linsane on Monday March 03 2014, @12:56PM
Likewise! I can see the (as yet undiscovered) Bitcion having some very interesting properties, for example ..
- Obeys a modified version of heisenburg's uncertainty principle where the more it observed the less likely its values are to be stable
- There is a slowly increasing number of them in existence with a theoretical maximum number
- The more energy that is expended in the production of Bitcions the lower the production rate
- The Bitcion is a classical particle until it has been divided several million times to its fundamental quantum unit (satoshion?)
etc
profit?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @03:28PM
"The more energy that is expended in the production of Bitcions the lower the production rate"
Actually, if you consider the acceleration of matter, the more energy that you expend to accelerate an object the less it causes it to move faster. Hence it would take an infinite amount of energy to approach the speed of light.