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Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 5, Informative) 106

by counterfriction on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @05:18AM (#21582871) Attached to: Major Breakthrough In Spintronics Research

All particles have an associated spin, just as all particles have an associated net charge.
Spintronic devices make use of the spin of electrons. Whence, Spintronics.

Submission + - MacGyver Physics

Submitted by counterfriction on Sunday May 27, 2007 @09:45PM

counterfriction writes: This month's issue of Symmetry, a magazine jointly published by SLAC and Fermilab, is featuring an article that points out the sometimes extemporaneous and unconventional solutions physicists have come up with in (and out of) the laboratory.
From TFA, 'Leon Lederman ... used a pocket knife, tape, and items on anyone's grocery list to confirm that interactions involving the weak force do now show perfect mirror symmetry, or parity, as scientists had long assumed.'

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