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Re: Metamaterial undermines 250-year-old construction principles

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Metamaterial undermines 250-year-old construction principles
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-07-metamaterial-undermines-year-old-principles.html
> 
>> Researchers have demonstrated how a rubber beam subjected to less
>> pressure bends faster. This behaviour defies expectations and appears
>> to undermine centuries-old bending laws. The beam is made from a
>> metamaterial, which gives it the name "metabeam." Metamaterials have
>> special properties that do not occur in nature. By providing the
>> metabeam with a carefully chosen pattern of small holes, the
>> researchers induced the strange behaviour. They published their work
>> on 21 July online in Physical Review Letters.

So it is a lab curiosity and has nothing what so ever to do with
"250-year-old construction principless".


-- 
Jim Pennino

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Metamaterial undermines 250-year-old construction principles Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-23 08:15 -0600
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