Comments on: Superatoms: Disagreement Within the Clustering Field

Superatoms: Disagreement Within the Clustering Field

dfowler — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:49:27 -0800

Laser vaporization employed to create Superatoms, atomic clusters that behave like individual atoms and could be used to create new materials.

By: dflemingdotorg

dflemingdotorg — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:57:33 -0800

The McGraw that Just.Won't.Die. Wonderful post!

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:41:33 -0800

Whoa.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:54:09 -0800

Talk about your holy grails, they claim to have developed an aluminum that won't corrode from oxygen. If comercializable some one is going to be making some serious bank.

By: leapfrog

leapfrog — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:08:18 -0800

I, for one, welcome our new superatomic overlords.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:56:51 -0800

This comment is to encourage more posts like this on Metafilter. Thanks dfowler.

By: m39

m39 — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:34:15 -0800

Someday, the common man will walk on the Moon. Also, the Moon will by that time be blasted full of random holes.

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:28:30 -0800

Atomtastical.

By: NortonDC

NortonDC — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:44:01 -0800

So which variety is transparent? Hellooo, computer! </Doohan>

By: coelecanth

coelecanth — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:55:24 -0800

Bah! I was going to say that.

By: NortonDC

NortonDC — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:22:12 -0800

So, coelecanth, would you say that I foiled you again?

By: blendor

blendor — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:12:07 -0800

Firstly, this is not McGraw-like: it is thematic and coherent. Secondly, this is a brilliant post.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:22:10 -0800

[Dirty Harry voice] being this is one of the most common elements in the world and would blow your oxygen clean off - you've got to ask yourself a question....do I feel stable? Well do ya punk? I enjoy how scientists bicker about the relevence because it's not an original idea...even though, y'know, he did the experiment. New nanomaterials? Woo hoo!!!! Look at what dynamite alone did.