3.13.2009



from PhysOrg.com: "An international team of scientists have discovered a transparent form of the element sodium (Na). The team... was able to demonstrate that sodium defies normal physical expectations by going transparent under pressure."

Hmm, maybe Garcia Marquez's improbable Melquiades was on to something after all.

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from One Hundred Years of Solitude: "Science has eliminated distance," Melquíades proclaimed. "In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening in any place in the world without leaving his own house."

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Dear blog follower, he was certainly right about that, wasn't he?

Public domain image: "Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae - Alchemist's laboratory, 1595" Hans Vredeman de Vries.


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