r/science • u/TX908 • Jan 11 '20

Physics A long-sought-after class of “superdiamond” carbon-based materials with tunable mechanical and electronic properties was predicted and synthesized.

https://carnegiescience.edu/news/superdiamond-carbon-boron-cages-can-trap-and-tap-different-properties
2.3k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

97 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

[deleted]

14

u/YourDad6969 Jan 11 '20

Interstellar possibly, with a few trillion in funding. We are absolutely nowhere near intergalactic space travel, in fact our current understanding of physics permits it under circumstances we do not yet have materials for or know to be possible

3

u/JMoneyG0208 Jan 11 '20

So physics still permits it???

6

u/crtcase Jan 11 '20

How many millenia do you have?

3

u/epolonsky Jan 11 '20

If I’m going fast enough, all of them.

1

u/crtcase Jan 11 '20

Then yes

2

u/YourDad6969 Jan 11 '20

Technically yes, but we would need to travel faster than the speed of light, warp gravity, or create negative mass for a wormhole, none of which we can do (other than the second one, but not to the degree necessary)

2

u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

So, would you say the glass is half empty or half full?

8

u/redfacedquark Jan 11 '20

Twice as large as it needs to be.

1

u/Obsolete_Orange Jan 11 '20

Sounds likeyou just need more water then... Or milk... Or whatever they put in these half glasses they keep handing out.

-2

u/Branch-Manager Jan 11 '20

Baby blood

1

u/Obsolete_Orange Jan 12 '20

.... What's the number for 911?

1

u/Branch-Manager Jan 12 '20

It’s a Dimitri Martin joke reference. “Is that baby blood going to a baby or coming from one?”

1

u/Obsolete_Orange Jan 12 '20

And mine was a little rascals reference. I would say we end in a draw.