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If you were doing research in the 60s, You might've heard of Polywater, A form of water that exhibited wide variety of interesting characteristics and existed under identical conditions to that of normal water. Eventually debunked, none the less is a fascinating story. Naturally one draws parallels to Vonnegut's ice nine, but did you know there
actually is an ice nine? In fact, there's
twelve to sixteen types of ice,
depending on your opinion. More recently, computer simulations have indicated
water may structure itself into icosahedra, which, incredibly, is
the platonic solid (described over 2000 years ago!) representing the element water! And if you don't know what an icosahedron is,
I bet you've used one before. One of the most ubiquitous,
and arguably most important, substances in our lives, our
understanding of water is far from complete.
posted by Large Marge
on Apr 29, 2008 -
38 comments
ALPHA and
ATRAP are two collaborations of physicists racing to trap and study
antihydrogen. To the winner most likely goes a Nobel Prize. The proposed comparison of hydrogen to antihydrogen promises to give an extremely senstive test of
CPT invarience. Why do we care? Thats a whole
Noether matter...
posted by ozomatli
on Dec 7, 2005 -
10 comments
