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New Quasi-Particle Found:

Mysterious Quantum ‘Dropletons’ Form Inside Semiconductors Shot With Lasers

by Adam Mann

By shooting a semiconductor with ultra-fast laser pulses, scientists have discovered a new quasiparticle that behaves like a drop of liquid. They describe it as a quantum droplet, and named it “dropleton.”

These things were not predicted under any theory and surprised scientists when they appeared unexpectedly in extremely low temperature semiconductor experiments. They have properties unlike anything seen before.

“At first we scratched our heads,” said physicist Steven Cundiff of the University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, one of the authors of a paper appearing today in Nature. “But then we came up with this idea that what we were seeing was this new thing we’re calling a quantum droplet.”

Now before you start asking questions like, “What?” and “Huh?” we probably need to break things down a little here…

(read more: Wired Science)

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And so I wish upon a memory, as a daydream of the past flickers through my eyes. Life is better with the past in the past though.

If the eyes are the windows to the soul, how did you think I could be a beautiful person?

0 = 1-1. What might it represent? That 1 and -1 add up to zero, of course. But that is interesting. Picture the reverse of the process: not 1 and -1 coming together to make 0, but 0 peeling apart, as it were, into 1 and -1. Where once you had Nothing, now you have two Somethings! Opposites of some kind, evidently. Positive and negative energy. Matter and antimatter. Yin and yang… ‘Opposites,’ [Peter Atkins] writes, ‘are distinguished by their direction of travel in time.’ In the absence of time, -1 and 1 cancel; they coalesce into zero. Time allows the two opposites to peel apart - and it is this peeling apart that, in turn, marks the emergence of time. It was thus, Atkins proposes, that the spontaneous creation of the universe got under way.

Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist?

A principle of Zen philosophy distilled in the simplest of equations. Now that is poetry!

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Goddamnit allergies. At least I'm off soda now... Shit should be advertised.

Coca-Cola Life

PSA: if you happen to have any kind of allergies such as tree pollen allergies (any oral allergy for that matter), stay away from drinking Coca-Cola Life.

I drank one yesterday because the coke people were doing a promotion and were giving them away and I became violently ill, seriously like vomiting for hours and chills and horrible feeling of death.

Coca-cola Life has Stevia and a quick google search mentions that if you’ve a ragweed allergy, hay fever, you can have an allergic reaction to Stevia.