Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Graphene

The 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics has gone to two scientists who did lots of research on a substance that's so thin it is almost invisible. It is called graphene and is nothing more than a single layer of graphite, the gray stuff that's in the center of a pencil. It is being called a two-dimensional substance though I disagree. I don't think there is such a thing as a two-dimensional substance. It is the thickness of a single atom so it has thickness. It also has height and depth. There you have it. Someone once said that they could make pancakes so thin they had only one side. Really? Everything, as far as I know, is three dimensional. If it's not, then it comes from a realm I know nothing about - a spiritual realm. Thank God this topless woman is three dimensional. Really.