Science on the Cutting Edge

[MSFixR]

Physicists Successfully Store and Retrieve Nothing

A team of researchers from the University of Calgary and the Tokyo Institute of Technology proudly announced that they had successfully stored "nothing" inside a puff of gas and then had managed to retrieve that same "nothing". That "nothing" is called a "squeezed vacuum", and the phycists tell us that a lightwave can be munipulated so that its phases are of uncertain amplitude, then the light itself is removed so that only the "uncertainty" property of the wave remains.

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(One good thing about this research is that no US tax dollars were used to support it.)

[Plastic Flute]

Im confused.

[MSFixR]

Don't try to rationalize it, Flute. These guys sit around drinking Jolt cola and eating Twinkies all day, then for fun they put nothing in a bottle and take it out again.

[Plastic Flute]

So just another day at the office huh? ~sigh~
Hey Fix What does it mean that TITAN has its own atmosphere? isnt it a moon?

[MSFixR]

Originally Posted by Plastic Flute

Hey Fix What does it mean that TITAN has its own atmosphere? isnt it a moon?

Titan is large enough that it can retain some of the gases emanating from its surface and from below its surface. It has a mass of 1.35X10^23 Kg; earth’s moon has a mass of 7.35X10^22 Kg and the gravitational force is proportional to the product of the masses of the two objects attracting each other. It’s atmosphere is composed of 98.4% Nitrogen and 1.6% Methane (Earth’s atmosphere is 78.08% Nitrogen, 20.95% Oxygen, 0.93% Argon and 0.038% Carbon Dioxide with traces of water vapor. Titan spends part of it’s time orbiting within the magnetosphere of Saturn (it does not have a molten iron core and hence no magnetosphere of its own like Earth) and hence it’s atmosphere is protected from the solar wind.

[Wolf]

A team of researchers from the University of Calgary and the Tokyo Institute of Technology proudly announced that they had successfully stored "nothing" inside a puff of gas and then had managed to retrieve that same "nothing".

That was a classic.