FLASH laser and new state of matter

[opensource]

Hey guys,

I hate recycling web content, but I thought you might like to read and comment on this
interesting article that I read today.

[Aeronaut]

Transparent aluminum! Another one for the sci-fi precedents thread, perhaps. Too bad the aluminum doesn’t stay “transparent”. But the power supply sounds like something with the same challenges we’re up against, and I’m wondering if this morphing might be useful for building onions?

[Rezwan]

Recycle away! In fact, I shall now twitter this.

Recycling is a noble tradition.

[Glenn Millam]

I thought transparent aluminum had already been invented.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride

[jamesr]

I went to a talk about this about 6 months ago – very interesting

The main interest is in studying “warm dense matter”. What they mean by warm, and dense of course is different to everyday use. It is a strongly coupled plasma state such as you find in the interior of gas giants such as Jupiter

more info can be found at http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v5/n9/full/nphys1341.html

[Breakable]

Actually aluminum foil is pretty transparent by itself, put it against a lamp and you will see.

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