No worries. I'm a bit of a dino nerd so I was surprised I hadn't heard of that before. Still though a preserved ANYTHING like that is pretty awesome. If there's some way to resurrect that bird, it'd be a pretty awesome day for science.
Nope, at least not on my phone. I'll try to open it on a computer later, maybe that way it will work.
iPhone... but it works now Can't see the video when im opening the link in Tapatalk (asks me to login to FB). Using forum thru the browser, vid shows up right in your post .
" New state of matter detected in a two-dimensional material "Until recently, we didn’t even know what the experimental fingerprints of a quantum spin liquid would look like," said researcher Dmitry Kovrizhin. By Brooks Hays | April 4, 2016 at 3:12 PM A diagram shows the excitement of electrons, triggering a new state of matter, in a graphene-like 2D lattice structure. Photo by Cambridge University CAMBRIDGE, England, April 4 (UPI) -- A team of quantum physicists has discovered a mysterious new state of matter in a two-dimensional material. Scientists are calling the state "quantum spin liquid." The novel state was predicted 40 years ago. Now, researchers have direct evidence. Quantum spin liquid is characterized by the breaking apart of electrons. The electron fragments are called Majorana fermions. While observing particle behavior inside a graphene-like 2D material, scientists at the University of Cambridge recorded the signatures of these fractional particles. What they saw matched the predictions of theoretical models for a quantum spin liquid. The mysterious state explains anomalies inside magnetic materials. Electrons in magnetic materials each behave like miniature bar magnets. As a material is cooled, the electrons each line up in accordance with magnetic north -- all pointing the same direction. This doesn't happen in magnetic materials boasting quantum spin liquid, where electrons refuse to align. Instead, their quantum fluctuations result in a soup of entangled electrons. "Until recently, we didn't even know what the experimental fingerprints of a quantum spin liquid would look like," researcher Dmitry Kovrizhin, a physicist at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, said in a press release. "One thing we've done in previous work is to ask, if I were performing experiments on a possible quantum spin liquid, what would I observe?" Research led by Johannes Knolle in 2014 -- also of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory -- offered a theoretical blueprint for the signature of electron fractionalization. There's now hard proof of Knolle's predictions. "This is a new addition to a short list of known quantum states of matter," said Knolle. "It's an important step for our understanding of quantum matter," said Kovrizhin. "It's fun to have another new quantum state that we've never seen before -- it presents us with new possibilities to try new things." The discovery was detailed in a new paper, published this week in the journal Nature Materials. Researchers believe these fractional particles, or fermions, could be harnessed for improved quantum computing power. " http://www.upi.com/Science_News/201...-in-a-two-dimensional-material/4601459789379/
Holy s*** at the last minute and a half. I've seen these comparisons in pictures, but the progression of the video makes it even more crazy. I don't know exactly why, but I think the actual bird-like ones impress upon me the most though. I think it's because we don't really have lizards that walk around on 2 legs today, so it's hard to really picture that on a giant scale. But we see birds every day walking around, even huge ones like ostriches at zoos, so I can more easily picture a giant, towering bird walking around and it's freaky, if that makes any sense. The only way for me to get a real sense of a dinosaur is like that one gigantic crocodile that was captured in some village and had a tv special, or maybe something like a blue whale.
The sheer size of some dinosaurs is definitely something that's nearly impossible to capture. I mean you're right the only way to think about it is comparing them to animals we see today. So what you can do is stack two giraffes on top of each other and imagine looking all the way up there. Or imagine something the size of two rhinoceroses with an enormous, hard frill around their horns. It's amazing. I don't know how this planet produced enough food for them to eat and survive for millions of years.
NOOOOOOOOOOO! WTF is that thing!? Why has humanity done this? Good lord if this is what is happening out in the light of day, what monstrosities are being created in shadow?
