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Someone tell me the industries that are going to benefit the most from this in the short and long term and what I can expect to see in the next 30 years as a re

Someone tell me the industries that are going to benefit the most from this in the short and long term and what I can expect to see in the next 30 years as a result of this discovery.

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helpfulclippy 3mo ago
That sounds like a lot of work for someone to go do for a quanta article about something neat a researcher noticed.
- calrt 3mo ago
  I worry that this sort of request will become the norm in the age of AI where people forget that people aren’t there to serve them.
  - autoexec 3mo ago
    If it does I'm just going to start doing what AI does and make up bullshit like Calvin's dad. https://i.redd.it/egytd3v20qo81.jpg https://i.redd.it/egytd3v20qo81.jpg
lostlogin 3mo ago
You made an account to say that?
- lstodd 3mo ago
  he had his llm to make an account to post this.
  - DeluluDon 3mo ago
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- rixed 3mo ago
  He made an account to add an offensive comment that would make many infuriated HNers engage with, thus improving the rank for the article?
gmueckl 3mo ago
Maybe it will not have any mmediate application. But guess what? It's still cool! And that can be its very own reward if you let it. Oh, btw: electricity was a novelty toy for several long decades with no major practical applications. But that eventually changed because people kept researching it. And it changed the world.
JumpCrisscross 3mo ago
It’s a new, generalizable material-science property at STP. Those almost always find practical uses. (Off the top of my head, a material that dissipates tension below a certain rate but fails when it is applied faster than that rate seems to resemble a mechanical breaker. As in not an electrical breaker that works mechanically. But one that decouples when you pull on it super hard. Being able to do that in fluids means one can potentially do that at very tiny scales. More broadly, if simple fluids have a quasi-elastic mode, that has fundamental implications for hydrodynamics. I'd be super curious to know, for example, if anything similar to this occurs in air or water.)
labbeth 3mo ago
Maybe I'm wrong or too naive... but isn't it related to "cavitation"?
- dgoldstein0 3mo ago
  From reading the article, it does sound like that's a top hypothesis. Pulled fast enough, a bubble from cavitation can form and serve as the nucleation site of the crack

Someone tell me the industries that are going to benefit the most from this in the short and long term and what I can expect to see in the next 30 years as a result of this discovery.

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helpfulclippy 3mo ago

That sounds like a lot of work for someone to go do for a quanta article about something neat a researcher noticed.

calrt 3mo ago
I worry that this sort of request will become the norm in the age of AI where people forget that people aren’t there to serve them.
- autoexec 3mo ago
  If it does I'm just going to start doing what AI does and make up bullshit like Calvin's dad. https://i.redd.it/egytd3v20qo81.jpg https://i.redd.it/egytd3v20qo81.jpg

lostlogin 3mo ago

You made an account to say that?

lstodd 3mo ago
he had his llm to make an account to post this.
- DeluluDon 3mo ago
  [flagged]
rixed 3mo ago
He made an account to add an offensive comment that would make many infuriated HNers engage with, thus improving the rank for the article?

gmueckl 3mo ago

Maybe it will not have any mmediate application. But guess what? It's still cool! And that can be its very own reward if you let it. Oh, btw: electricity was a novelty toy for several long decades with no major practical applications. But that eventually changed because people kept researching it. And it changed the world.

JumpCrisscross 3mo ago

It’s a new, generalizable material-science property at STP. Those almost always find practical uses. (Off the top of my head, a material that dissipates tension below a certain rate but fails when it is applied faster than that rate seems to resemble a mechanical breaker. As in not an electrical breaker that works mechanically. But one that decouples when you pull on it super hard. Being able to do that in fluids means one can potentially do that at very tiny scales. More broadly, if simple fluids have a quasi-elastic mode, that has fundamental implications for hydrodynamics. I'd be super curious to know, for example, if anything similar to this occurs in air or water.)

labbeth 3mo ago

Maybe I'm wrong or too naive... but isn't it related to "cavitation"?

dgoldstein0 3mo ago
From reading the article, it does sound like that's a top hypothesis. Pulled fast enough, a bubble from cavitation can form and serve as the nucleation site of the crack