Custom Engineered Molecules:
An Advancement on Nature
A report by:
RAdm. RM Wey
COSR:SFS-SFC
Research conducted into the manipulation of the molecular bonds of such items as metals, ceramics, polymers, etc., has brought about the manufacture of materials with tensile strengths greater than the original. Such manipulations change the conventional materials structure in a way that reduces the space 'between' the atoms from microns [or millionths of a meter] in diameter to nanometer [or one billionth of a meter] sized 'clusters'. A one-nanometer diameter cluster would contain around three hundred atoms and be more than one million times smaller than this: ". In more obvious terms, it would be equivalent to vessel forty feet in length compared next to the size of the earth. The process first began with the cool down after the big bang; when the primordial condensed matter formed such structures in early meteorites. Nature has its share of these structures, seashells, and skeletons, etc. The process involves placing a substance [such as a metal] in a synthesis chamber. There it is heated above its melting point, causing atoms to 'evaporate' from its surface. These atoms are 'condensed' into clusters, which cool into dense solids. And by having such a material exposed to an inert gas [such as oxygen], one can produce the ceramic, titania. Other materials yielded from this process have been nanometals in palladium, zinc, iron, and copper. Other possibilities stem from the fact that, in diameters of one to fifty nanometers, light passes through. Effectively making the material transparent, while increasing its tensile strength [i.e. transparent aluminum]. The introduction of cadmium selenide can alter the color of cosmetics. Also possible is the use of such nanometals to extract sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, and other contaminants. As well as in the production of recording media, and a host of other products only now being considered.
On The Trail Of Neutrinos:
And Their Cycle With The Sun
A report by:
Comm. DL Wey
DCOSR:SFS-SFC
ome time ago the commanding officer gave us a look at the horrifying possibility of being killed by a passing neutrino[see OSR research document 960318]. Back then, it was considered that such troubles could occur only once every eleven years [the equivalent of the suns solar cycle]. However, recent discoveries have changed that figure to one of only 21.3 days! Now it appears this menace to the scientific world is even more prevalent; it is so insidious that it can be beside you and you would not know it. For it has no mass [sometimes], can be in different forms [or maybe not], and although stellar objects like our sun produce vast numbers of these critters [as theories propose], there has yet to be such detected! So instead of a danger possibly occurring during an eleven-year cycle, now it is found to be possible every three weeks. So citizens beware, should it come, there would be no where to hide, no place that would be safe, and no hope of salvation! For death by neutrino is silent, and perhaps, once again, just around the corner.