(N.Morgan) This is one of those discoveries that really just blows your mind! Researchers have now made a new particle, Quantum Dropleton or Droplet,which has the same characteristics as liquid! Physicists can spend years seeking new particles to illuminate aspects of nature’s laws, but an international team decided instead to make their own particles.
Called a dropleton or quantum droplet, the newly created “particle” is actually a short-lived cluster of electrons and positive charges called “holes.” Like other so-called quasiparticles, dropletons act like single particles.
Credit: Brad Baxley
At the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany, and Joint Institute for Lab Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, researchers made an agglomeration of electrons and holes that was bigger than any created before — 200 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, across. That is almost big enough to see with a good microscope, about one-50th the thickness of a cotton fiber. Before now, physicists had created two-pair groups of electrons and holes, but never such an agglomeration that could form this liquid-like quantum droplet or dropleton.
A challenge to all BIN “Reporters”.
Post your name at the beginning of your “story”, and see how any of us click on it.
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A challenge to all BIN “Reporters”.
Post your name at the beginning of your “story”, and see how any of us click on it.
That way we’ll all know high you rate with us.
Well, Slam, it looks like the gods of BIN heard your idea.
Now you can see who posted it before you click.
So, I’m doing my happy dance, knowing I won’t be seeing you again!
Have a great life, Slam!
One more thing, my numbers are doing WAY better with the new set up!
Again, thanks for the AWESOME idea, Slammy old chum!
Great idea, Slam!
Since mine don’t get the full run like some of the others, that just might help me some!
I have no issue with that at all.
Not much of a challenge though.. Come on, you can do better, can’t you??