TIL: Today I Learned

[Samson]

It was remiss of me to omit the reference. Do the math yourself!
https://www.pnas.org/content/108/30/12233
or not
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-twisted-graphene-became-the-big-thing-in-physics-20190430/

That is far beyond my maths, but from a skim it looks purely theoretical. There is no methods section, with a "Model" section where one might expect it. Is that how you read it?

Oh, and I hate that so much science journalism has no references.

 

[Ferocitus]

That is far beyond my maths, but from a skim it looks purely theoretical. There is no methods section, with a "Model" section where one might expect it. Is that how you read it?

Oh, and I hate that so much science journalism has no references.

The Quanta Magazine article links to the PNAS paper which has the salient references.

 

[Lexicus]

Man, I thought I had adequate ears to the ground on this stuff, I'm ashamed to only be finding out about it now...apparently the discovery was first made almost a year ago?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned that in Japan, females are more likely to develop Parkinson's Disease than males. In Europe and the USA, it's the other way around.

 

[Traitorfish]

TIL that superconductivity can be induced in a graphene bilayer by twisting the two sheets so that they are 1.1 degrees out of alignment.

As an arts major, I understood the word "two".

 

[Hrothbern]

As an arts major, I understood the word "two".

We need cost and electricity losses per (mile * GWh)
When it would enable us to have electricity cables going from Kamchatka to the North Sea, increasing day-light time with 10 hours, connecting solar cell fields.... connecting windmill fields all over, etc....

 

[GoodSarmatian]

As an arts major, I understood the word "two".

As a chemistry dropout, I vaguely recognized the Hamiltonian, got flashbacks, and promptly closed the tab.

 

[Cutlass]

As an arts major, I understood the word "two".

But not "that"?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-twisted-graphene-became-the-big-thing-in-physics-20190430/

I see, that's where the phrase mentioning cooling a few degrees above absolute zero popped up on a casual Google search. Not exactly what you'd call high-temperature superconductors.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

A couple of days ago I met my neighbor's cat. I learned that his/her name is "Kit".

 

[Kyriakos]

A couple of days ago I met my neighbor's cat. I learned that his/her name is "Kit".

Is the owner's last name Rider? ^_^

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Is the owner's last name Rider? ^_^

The joke is that there's a chocolate bar here called KitKat. They're delicious and very popular.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

TIL that all members (haha !) of Barenaked Ladies were male.
This information annoys, disgusts and enrages me.

 

[Kyriakos]

TIL that all members (haha !) of Barenaked Ladies were male.
This information annoys, disgusts and enrages me.

There are also the venga boys. Who were two hot girls

 

[Valka D'Ur]

TIL that all members (haha !) of Barenaked Ladies were male.
This information annoys, disgusts and enrages me.

Why? You must realize that even though women are now legally allowed to be topless in public in some regions of Canada (Ontario and BC, last I heard), I don't think that extends to full nudity with concert performers.

Valka, KitKat is a global brand. And if the yield of a brief google search is any indication it's not marginal or anything in Greece either.

(And, yes, of course i just spent time pointlessly watching Greek KitKat commercials.)

Just because something is a global brand, that's not a valid reason to assume everyone has heard of it. There are lots of things that are global, have been for years, yet I don't seem to have heard of them until they crop up in someone's post either here or one or two other forums I belong to.

And sometimes what's legal in one country isn't legal in another. Just witness the fact that Canadians are allowed to have Kinder Surprises and Americans aren't.

 

[Lexicus]

And sometimes what's legal in one country isn't legal in another. Just witness the fact that Canadians are allowed to have Kinder Surprises and Americans aren't.

Yes, here in America we know that automatic rifles are much safer than Kinder Surprises.

 

[Traitorfish]

But not "that"?

It's ambiguous, in context.

 

[Ferocitus]

I see, that's where the phrase mentioning cooling a few degrees above absolute zero popped up on a casual Google search. Not exactly what you'd call high-temperature superconductors.

I didn't think it pretended to be. From the Quanta article: The practical goals are obvious: to illuminate a path to higher-temperature superconductivity...
(BTW, it is definitely outside my field of expertise!)
The interesting points (for me) were:
(a) The surprisingly simple technique;
(b) The enormous interest it generated immediately after acceptance for The Academy of Science publication;
(c) The large numbers of physicists and engineers that packed into meetings around the world;
(d) and that it's already being heralded as a Nobel Prize contender.

 

[Hrothbern]

I didn't think it pretended to be. From the Quanta article: The practical goals are obvious: to illuminate a path to higher-temperature superconductivity...
(BTW, it is definitely outside my field of expertise!)
The interesting points (for me) were:
(a) The surprisingly simple technique;
(b) The enormous interest it generated immediately after acceptance for The Academy of Science publication;
(c) The large numbers of physicists and engineers that packed into meetings around the world;
(d) and that it's already being heralded as a Nobel Prize contender.

It does not need rare minerals as well !

 

[BenitoChavez]

TIL that it can "snow" on Venus despite the surface temperature being over 400 degrees C. The snow isn't water of course but some other substance, possible tellurium or lead sulfide, that evaporates lower elevation (and thus higher temperature) but cools in the atmosphere and precipitates thus accumulating at higher elevations.