Tuesday, June 24, 2003

Don’t Be Dense

Did anybody else see that scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have created, in their Relativistic Accellerator, a new form of matter?  By slamming two gold ions together, they created, for a fraction of a nanosecond, the “hottest, densest matter ever observed.”

Pretty cool, eh? Or I guess, pretty hot.  The hottest ever.  And dense.  Super-dense.  These two adjectives, “hot” and “dense,” get used a lot these days.  Pending official notification that I’m on the search team, I have been trying to come up with an appropriate name for this new state of matter, something that evokes hotness and density.  “Britny” seems like an available option, or “keanu.” Sure it’s hot, but don’t ask it to proofread your manuscript.  Got any other good names for The Hot and the Dense?

And on a point that is one-half very closely related to hotness and one-half diametrically opposed to density, PATRICIA TOTALLY ROCKS.  Thanks for setting me up.  Now that I’m running MT on her server, I shouldn’t have any more outages.  That means you can belittle my scribblings to your hearts’ content, whenever you want, without fear of my having gone down.  My blog, that is.  You know what I’m talking about.  Have at it.