Fascinating fact of the day
From the Department of Wave-Particle Duality:
Did you know that a buckyball (or a molecule of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a geodesic-sphere design) has a de Broglie wavelength of 2.5 picometers, about 400 times smaller than the diameter of the molecule?
I kind of had a "Sheldon Cooper" moment when I went out into the living room to tell the boy toy that, only to realize that it was all technobabble to him. (Why, yes, we *do* watch The Big Bang Theory. First sitcom I've followed since M*A*S*H went off the air.)
Back to this short article I'm writing....
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Did you know that a buckyball (or a molecule of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a geodesic-sphere design) has a de Broglie wavelength of 2.5 picometers, about 400 times smaller than the diameter of the molecule?
I kind of had a "Sheldon Cooper" moment when I went out into the living room to tell the boy toy that, only to realize that it was all technobabble to him. (Why, yes, we *do* watch The Big Bang Theory. First sitcom I've followed since M*A*S*H went off the air.)
Back to this short article I'm writing....
This entry was originally posted at http://luscious-purple.dreamwidth.org/90325.html. Please feel free to comment either here or there.