#4055352 - 12/24/14 11:22 AM
Huge electric field found in ice-cold laughing gas
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http://www.sciencealert.com/huge-and-mysterious-electric-field-found-in-ice-cold-laughing-gasA brand new electrical phenomenon has been discovered - a huge electric field in a thin film of laughing gas. The discovery is so bizarre, the scientists who made it were convinced it was a mistake. Scientists in Denmark have made a curious and awesome discovery - cooled down, solid laughing gas can contain an enormous electric field. The discovery occurred when physicists at Aarhus University were observing how electrons travel through nitrous oxide, or 'laughing gas', frozen to minus 233 degrees Celsius. When brought down to this temperature, the gas formed a thin, solid film, about one tenth of a micron thick, hovering over a strip of gold. It was supposed to be a routine experiment, but the team soon realised something was amiss. A potential of around 14.5 volts appeared spontaneously on the film, which in turn produced an enormous electrical field of more than 100 million volts per metre. Based on widely accepted notions in physics, there should have been no electric current whatsoever. 
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#4055364 - 12/24/14 11:58 AM
Re: Huge electric field found in ice-cold laughing gas
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Too soon to ask, I suppose, but what could be some practical applications?
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#4055370 - 12/24/14 12:27 PM
Re: Huge electric field found in ice-cold laughing gas
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Electric chairs could use this. At least he died laughing.
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#4055412 - 12/24/14 01:54 PM
Re: Huge electric field found in ice-cold laughing gas
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And sitting on a gold chair.
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#4055422 - 12/24/14 02:03 PM
Re: Huge electric field found in ice-cold laughing gas
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Useful for interplanetary travel?
My 'Waiting for Clod' thread: http://tinyurl.com/bqxc9eeAlways take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.Elie Wiesel. Romanian born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor. 1928 - 2016. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C.S. Lewis, 1898 - 1963.
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#4055454 - 12/24/14 02:55 PM
Re: Huge electric field found in ice-cold laughing gas
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And sitting on a gold chair. And freezing his arse off... Well, he didn't do anything nice to get there in the first place so #%&*$# him 
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#4055481 - 12/24/14 03:37 PM
Re: Huge electric field found in ice-cold laughing gas
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this will lead to faster internet and someone will be laughing all the way to the bank and I know this cause I'm an electrical engineer
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#4055573 - 12/24/14 07:16 PM
Re: Huge electric field found in ice-cold laughing gas
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I'm a skeptrical engineer.
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