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Duckpaddle

Duckpaddle

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I was reading this 1960's SF novel I got at an estate sale, Cosmic Engineers. One of the main "props" was a material made entirely of electrons. Then I read this https://dly.to/zpLHyF7n7Yr

I guess truth is stranger than fiction.
 
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Duckpaddle said:
I was reading this 1960's SF novel I got at an estate sale, Cosmic Engineers. One of the main "props" was a material made entirely of electrons. Then I read this https://dly.to/zpLHyF7n7Yr

I guess truth is stranger than fiction.
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Very cool. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the Sign Up for the Daily Dev banner which was blocking half the screen to go away, so I found the Rhombohedral Graphene story Here.

But it's this "fractional states" business that's piqued my curiosity. (From my link)

One way to think about the relation between the integer and fractional states is to imagine a map created by tuning electric voltages: By tuning the system with different voltages, you can create a “landscape” similar to a river (which represents the liquid-like fractional states) cutting through glaciers (which represent the solid-like integer effect), Ju explains.
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