Comment Re:A Little Known Maryland Scientist Has Made Publ (Score 1) 492
or powering our vehicles with corn.
Comment Re:Diving? (Score 1) 417
The words are coming out all weird where are you now...
Comment Re:Irregardless is a word! Pedantry is useless! (Score 1) 551
My problem, is that it means the opposite (or close to opposite, kind of like ambiguous vs. UNambiguous) of what people who use it think it means.
I don't care if people use it. I don't even care all that much if it's used incorrectly, because it's a pretty common thing for an average person to use a word incorrectly. But when the word means the opposite of the intended meaning, I tend to point it out, and/or break a door. Partly out of hopelesness for society. Partly because the prefix IR is right in front of the word in question.
But aside from all that, I must digress.... I hope that most- even yourself- would agree that the simple fact that a phenomenon has oozed it's way into our culture... of extremely high academic and intellectual standards... is a really bad way to judge it's acceptability or quality. Maybe I'm wrong... Maybe the masses really were right after all about Vanilla Ice, Paris Hilton and George Dubya.
We may never know.
Comment Re:Key Point # 1 (Score 5, Funny) 551
[mutates and goes into chaotic rage upon reading the word "irregardless"]
Quantum Cloaking Makes Molecules Invisible 118
KentuckyFC writes "An international team of physicists has applied the ideas of cloaking to the quantum world and worked out how to hide quantum objects such as molecules. In the quantum world, seeing is equivalent to detecting a quantum object. In the case of molecules, that means looking for the terahertz radiation they produce when they vibrate (abstract). By designing a 'quantum corral,' an elliptical nanostructures that absorbs terahertz waves at a precise frequency, the team says it is possible to hide molecules that emit at exactly that frequency. They say their quantum corral would be ideally suited to detecting molecules of specific species while ignoring others. And that may mean a new generation of molecular detectors on the horizon."
