Life imitates Star Trek.

http://www.physorg.com/news167925273.html

Pete
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Pete Snell
Department of Physics
Royal Military College
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada
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In a car everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer
and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is
completely gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the
scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is
overwhelming.

Robert Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. (1974)

Pete Snell wrote:
Life imitates Star Trek.
http://www.physorg.com/news167925273.html

In this week’s Nature Physics an international team, led by Oxford
University scientists, report that a short pulse from the FLASH laser
‘knocked out’ a core electron from every aluminium atom in a sample
without disrupting the metal’s crystalline structure. This turned the
aluminium nearly invisible to extreme ultraviolet radiation.

"Louis Ohland" wrote in message
...
Pete Snell wrote:
Life imitates Star Trek.
http://www.physorg.com/news167925273.html

In this week’s Nature Physics an international team, led by Oxford
University scientists, report that a short pulse from the FLASH laser
‘knocked out’ a core electron from every aluminium atom in a sample
without disrupting the metal’s crystalline structure. This turned the
aluminium nearly invisible to extreme ultraviolet radiation.


but it wasn't around for very long:

"Whilst the invisible effect lasted for only an extremely brief period - an
estimated 40 femtoseconds - it demonstrates that such an exotic state of
matter can be created using very high power X-ray sources."

"Pete Snell" wrote in message
...
Life imitates Star Trek.

http://www.physorg.com/news167925273.html

Pete
--
Pete Snell
Department of Physics
Royal Military College
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada
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In a car everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer
and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is
completely gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the
scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is
overwhelming.

Robert Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. (1974)

Another Pirsig fan....His book had more applicability to metal working,
electronic trouble shooting, marriage encounter, and just about every
endeavor of peoplekind.