Monday, August 13, 2007

Stanford researchers puzzled by theft of rare earth metals

In a crime that has mystified campus scientists and police, ingots of holmium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium and other metals have disappeared from a physics lab, stalling important research into the creation of materials with unusual magnetic and electronic properties.

(Via Rudy Rucker's blog.)


Your guess is as good as mine.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I just wanted to create a really cool, shiny, uber-magnet tripole set with certain electrical properties which, when employing brushless-contact ultra-high speed gyroscopes in a super-cooled, super-conducting rotationally counter-spun horizontal plane within a vacuum chamber, has an interesting effect in reducing gravitational pull to the degree that I can employ it as a form of personal propulsion. And for air hockey with my nephew.

Is that really so bad? Good!

Dr. Evil (& Son)