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from the (sigh)-still-no-Puerto-Ricoton dept.
amblivious writes:
"Researchers investigating the creation of biexcitons noticed an unexpected drop in energy when creating multiple biexcitons in gallium arsenide, leading to the discovery of a new state of matter; the dropleton. Excitons are quasi-particles created when a photon knocks an electron loose from a material, causing an electron hole. If the forces of other charges nearby keep the electron close enough to the hole a state known as an exciton forms where the combined electron and hole act together as though they are a single particle. Biexcitons consist of two of these quasi-particles and collectively behave like a molecule. In this discovery several excitons are behaving together in a 'quantum fog' and behave like a droplet, hence the name.
See the article in Nature for more information."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ryuugami on Monday March 03 2014, @07:32AM
Good quote, off it goes to my quote file :)
I sometimes envy people who have a sense for naming things. Mostly when naming characters in RPGs, or ship designs in space 4X games, though. If I ever discover something important, I'll likely spend more time thinking of a name then doing the actual discovery.
As the saying goes, there are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
The trouble with being punctual is that people think you have nothing more important to do.