#Polaron

[thedigwriter]

THE RIGHT TO BE A CZECH CITIZEN

The lost ties of a citizen inheritance

Article by: Juan Carlos Matyáš Saab

Total Words: 1954

Reading time: About 10 minutes

Synopsys

How to get the proof of Slovak non-citizenship without losing your mind. The journey of a Czech citizenship application that is taken more than a decade.

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Something that I will never understand about the current migration policies of the Czech Republic is the way in which, through the accommodation of dates, they choose who, how and when can be a citizen of the country, despite the fact that many of us have the legal descendants of relatives born within the territory, and that, by location on the map and the proof of their documents, it should be absolutely obvious and sufficient.

The reality is that for us who live abroad are practically excluded from all the benefits that, I would think, we are entitled to by right.

When Czechoslovakia was dissolved, instead of opening the doors of Czechia to its citizens and making things easier to bring back its people and their families, incredibly the opposite happened. The borders have closed and politics, bureaucracy, seem to be the ones who hold the reins, making more difficult to claim the rights that should already be granted.

This is my story. The story of many people trying to get what they rightfully deserve. The story that tells of the difficulty of being legal despite the energy, talent, knowledge and passion that identifies our family heritage.

The fact

While living abroad, my father, who is a Czech citizen (along with my deceased grandfather), notified me that it was possible to claim citizenship by inheritance and descent directly at their embassies.  This excellent news would allow me to be legally part of my family, and of course, invest my professional and personal experience in my grandfather's land, which would become mine very soon. I began to collect every penny to start my process and be able to arrive at my new home with the financial cushion that would give me the opportunity to start my own business, and at the same time, work legally while learning the language.

The reality

And well, I finally went to the embassy. I submitted my father and grandfather's papers thinking that this would be enough. Big mistake: All the members of my family qualified, except me. The explanation received at the time was:

You do not qualify for Czech citizenship, according to the dates stipulated within the "Law No. 186/2013 concerning citizenship of the Czech Republic".

Wow!  This for me really was a bucket of cold water...

According to this law, at the time of my birth, Czechoslovakia had already been divided. Therefore, if my grandfather was not within the territory, they could not determine which side he belonged to; Whether next to the Czech Republic or next to Slovakia.

Please note that, in my grandfather's birth register, his parents were Czech, they had lived within Czech territory, my existing relatives are located within Czech territory, my grandfather's passport is Czech; That is, everywhere you can determine that my descendants are definitely Czech.

In summary and to clarify, all the documents and evidence provided were not sufficient for the country's authorities...

My entire family received their citizenship and passport, except for me. With great pain in my heart and despite the efforts of having traveled to another city, starting a procedure, having paid and waited for it, I had to realize that it would not happen, and that I would have to leave things like this, move away and continue life with this disappointment.

Resuming

After a few years I returned to my native country, and my father again convinced me to apply again through the Czech embassy located in the city, as he had been told that the laws had changed and that it was now possible for me to obtain Czech citizenship. So, we finally did it.

We went there, spoke directly to the consul and at some point, his answer was clear and forceful:

“Yes, sir. You have the right to Czech citizenship, but in order to start the process you will need to prove that you are not a Slovak citizen.

What? That was my logical response to hearing such nonsense.

The instructions

Then, the consul went on to give me the instructions of the procedure:

You will need to contact the embassy of the Slovak Republic in Brazil and process through them a form of "proof of Slovak non-citizenship". Once you have this document in your possession, you can go back to this embassy and we will gladly start the process of applying for your Czech citizenship.

Wow! Incredibly, I would now need to prove that I have no connection with the Slovak Republic; But anyways, trying to be calm and focused, if that was the requirement of the embassy, we would comply with it to have the necessary legality.

Memories

I will mention that this situation was in 2018 and that a few days later I tried to contact the embassy of the Slovak Republic in Brazil by emails, since no embassy was open in my country at that date and the only one designated for the entire region was located in that country. So, I sent several messages to different emails that appeared in "Google" since I didn't know exactly which one to target and no one was provided at the moment of my appointment.

These emails were not answered, and I decided to directly contact the consul of the embassy of the Czech Republic in my country again and explain the situation. He, the consul, very kindly replied saying that he could not do anything and finally gave me an email to write to, as some people was successful in contacting the Czech embassy in Brazil in the past. So, I started sending the same emails to this new email address.

They finally answered one of my emails. Just one, telling me that I had to make an appointment and pay for the procedure in the local currency of the country.

Another information was that I had to do the procedure in person and it would take about 1 year, and that when I arrived, I would have to return to claim it in person, since they did not send anything by email or by any international transport company, due to the sensitivity of the document.

Ok. Understood. I took notice and responded to this email requesting information about the date available for the appointment schedule, the amount to pay to take the money in local currency and of course asking what documents would be needed for this procedure.

Disappointments

Do you know how many emails I received again in response from them? Zero. I never received even the notification that they had been reeded. Frustrating, right?

After several months of not receiving any response, I decided to leave things like that, since I did not know how to obtain that document. I wasn't going to buy flight tickets without having anything prepared, travel to another country without having an answer, an appointment, a price or a specific date.

Time passed, the pandemic came and went, and with the resilience of the case, we reinvented ourselves and started again. We continue our life, our work, our education and we adapt more in each of the steps.

Resuming

At that same time and after 5 years of doing nothing about that respect, I began to wonder why it was so difficult to get this Czech citizenship, being clear that my father, my grandfather, my sister and even my niece were already citizens and had their passport...

So, in September of 2023, I wrote again to the Slovak embassy in Brazil hoping that now they would respond to me; And I tell you that, until today, October 2024, I have not had any answer. More than a year waiting for a miserable message...

I needed to find another way to solve this teaser; So, at the beginning of the year I started looking on the internet for more information about where else I could get that Slovak non-citizenship proof" or another legal way of I could apply for Czech citizenship, but nothing.

Nowhere was any mention of the need for the "Slovak non-citizenship proof" or where I could write or submit questions.

The situation was totally incredible to me and although I respected it with suspicion, I could not realize in my head the little common sense this policy had.

I exchanged messages with the consul of the Czech embassy of my country during that time, telling him about all I had done, especially about the issue with the embassy of Slovakia in Brazil, but always obtained the same answer: I needed to go to Brazil, no matter if they answer or not.

And, like this, I found a second option: I decided to start contacting immigration lawyers directly in the Czech Republic. I had analyzed in my head that, if I had to spend a fortune going to Brazil to apply for the proof document in person, wait 1 year to get a response back, bring it to my country, submit the application and wait another year for the decision, I could do the same in the Czech Republic.

I figured out that through lawyers from the same country the application would cost me the same and also the trip, but at least I would be sure that my case would be done within the Czech territory; and if I needed anything else, Slovakia would be just around the corner.

The research

I prepared a generic message, which included the description of my situation, the legal information of my father and grandfather with attachments and images, the family tree, and of course mentioning the need for the document "proof of Slovak non-citizenship" in order to start the process.

Many of them (the lawyers) started to contact me a few days later, and others, the following week. The most incredible thing is that everyone told me that it was the first time they had heard about this “proof of Slovak non-citizenship”, which made my situation even stranger. At this point I understood that perhaps there would be a different approach to this situation, more objective and realistic.

After some time an answer arrived from one of the contacted lawyers:  They explained to me that in the event that the document was needed, we could fill out another sworn form saying that I was not a Slovak citizen, and that, for the rest of the procedure, they would only need a power of attorney from me, so that they could act on my behalf; and the only thing they could not do for me was to get my passport, because the Czech government would require my fingerprints for the biometric part.

In addition, they explained that the process would be faster, since there would be no need to wait for the normal times of the embassy, and so the said procedures would be carried out directly in the country, eliminating the times of coming and going of the documents.

The current point

On a personal level, since 2012 I have found myself trapped in this situation and this new approach, probably can be a final solution. I hope that time, the lawyer's knowledge and the consistency of immigration policies will help me finally obtain the long-awaited Czech citizenship.

I know there are many people in the same situation and that perhaps don´t have the time or the financial capacity to continue trying. I will continue doing so until I finally achieve the goal that my grandfather and my father have given me by right.

[materialsscienceandengineering]

To describe how matter works at infinitesimal scales, researchers designate collective behaviors with single concepts -- like calling a group of birds flying in sync a "flock" or "murmuration." Known as quasiparticles, the phenomena these concepts refer to could be the key to next-generation technologies. In a recent study published in Science Advances, a team of researchers led by Shengxi Huang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and materials science and nanoengineering at Rice, describe how one such type of quasiparticle -- polarons -- behaves in tellurene, a nanomaterial first synthesized in 2017 that is made up of tiny chains of tellurium atoms and has properties useful in sensing, electronic, optical and energy devices.

Read more.

[mybam2u]

Dielectric Luma

[sakuraswordly]

Source: Abstract

Predicting the emergent properties of impurities immersed in a quantum bath is a fundamental challenge that can defy quasiparticle treatments. Here, we measure the spectral properties and real-time dynamics of mobile impurities injected into a weakly interacting homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate, using two broad Feshbach resonances to tune both the impurity-bath and intrabath interactions. For attractive impurity-bath interactions, the impurity spectrum features a single branch, which away from the resonance corresponds to a well-defined attractive polaron; near the resonance, we observe dramatic broadening of this branch, suggesting a breakdown of the quasiparticle picture. For repulsive impurity-bath interactions, the spectrum features two branches: the attractive branch that is dominated by excitations with energy close to that of the Feshbach dimer, but has a many-body character, and the repulsive polaron branch. Our measurements show that the behavior of impurities in weakly interacting baths is remarkably universal, controlled only by the bath density and a single dimensionless interaction parameter.

[beatrice-otter]

[image description: chart titled Talk Like A Technician: The Use of Technobabble.

Technology in Star Trek is complex and works in scientific concepts and principles that are far beyond what the majority of Players and Gamemasters are knowledgeable in. Throughout the collected media, Starfleet officers discuss technology using terms that most Players are not going to know. Instead of expecting Players to study and memorize technical manuals and reference books that have been published over the years we've provided an easy way to talk like a Starfleet engineer. Anyone can do "technobabble"!

To use the chart simply gather and roll d20s and consult the chart below for technical new terms and concepts.

Occasionally portions of the chart may not be applicable to the scene or circumstance. In that case simply omit that portion of technobabble!

The chart has six columns, Roll, Action, Descriptor, Source, Effect, and Device. Each has 20 rows.

Roll: numbers 1-20

Action: refocus, amplify, synchronize, redirect, recalibrate, modulate, oscillate, intensify, nullify, boost, reverse, reconfigure, actuate, focus, invert, reroute, modify, restrict, reset, extend

Descriptor: microscopic, macroscopic, linear, non-linear, isometric, multivariant, nano, phased, master, auxiliary, primary, secondary, tertiary, back-up, polymodal, multiphasic, tri-fold, balanced, oscillating

Source: Quantum, positronic, thermionic, osmotic, neutrino, spatial, resonating, thermal, photon, ionic, plasma, nucleonic, verteron, gravimetric, nadion, subspace, baryon, tetryon, polaron, tachyon

Effect: flux, reaction, field, particle, gradient, induction, conversion, polarizing, displacement, feed, imagining, reciprocating, frequency, pulse, phased, harmonic, interference, distortion, dampening, invariance

Device: inhibitor, equalizer, damper, chamber, catalyst, coil, unit, grid, regulator, sustainer, relay, discriminator, array, coupling, controller, actuator, harmonic, generator, manifold, stabilizer.

/end id]

[cuprohastes]

Ludicrous speed.

Let me tell you about humans. They’re shit. No exoskeleton, they need to pour water into their face all the time, no plumage, they can’t even sense magnetism.

They’re wobbly squishy things who walk around looking at the world with jelly blobs, leaking their most important resource out of their skin.

And you hear that they’re the Galaxy’s most dangerous species.

And they’re not, they really aren’t.

The Ixnar are. The Ixnar will get halfway through a genocide before they start to wonder why they’re doing it. The Ixnar will fire relativistic weapons and not give a solitary nnuniq what they’ll hit later on down the line.

Humans? They start by coming up with a reason to be terrifying, and then they refine it as they go. See? They give you fair warning. They think about stuff. They’ll talk to you first, then do something horrifying.

But if you don’t give them that chance, then… well, that’s on you.

And I never believed that reputation. I’d worked with humans for years, and I’ve never seen them do anything more than carry stuff, sing songs, eat barbaric food and sleep. About what you’d expect from a pack animal - Useful, affable, but…. dangerous?

It is to laugh.

Anyway.

The Ixnar.

They sent a raiding party to my homeworld. I couldn’t believe it, I was in shock when their ships entered atmosphere and started firing on our cities.

I was ready to go down and help the survivors - Of course I was!

The Humans?

Well they got angry. Like angrier than they had a right to be. And they’re humans, right? They get angry, they do something with it.

They didn’t want to go down and help the survivors, they wanted to go down and murder the raiders.

You know… they actually hailed the Ixnar and asked them, begged them, even tried to trade with them to stop their attack.

The Ixnar hung up and… the Humans dropped hell on them.

In a cargo freighter. A human cargo freighter.

They love their aerobraking. So they have these huge shields and magnetic fields to manage plasma: They come in, and they trade speed for heat and then coast and shed the heat.

Not this time. I thought we were going to die - They pointed the ship at the planet, and they came down so hard I could hear the air through the hull.

We didn’t even need cabin lights.

And then… they lit the main drives. A thing no sentient would ever do in atmosphere. Because it’s suicide. Absolutely: We were already moving at fifty times faster than the speed of sound, and then they decided they needed to be faster.

And they got it. Because they were angry on behalf of people they never met. They just decided that physics didn’t matter. The hull wasn’t important. Fuel? Engines? Ha! Who cares, right? They’ll just get out and flap their arms if they need to, with a kitchen knife between their teeth.

You know what happens if a fighter skiff gets hit with a shockwave like that? They go away. They stop being anything you could call a thing.

And you know, Humans don’t send out Cargo ships without protection. I mean, their hulls alone are insane. But they also like to carry a little punitive hardware.

About as much as most species warships.

Beam weapons, ballistic slugs, missiles, Field spinners, and those fucking Polaron cannons.

Yeah, nobody has worked out how that works. They’re Polarons. And the humans figured out how to make them hurt.

And they were firing on these little warships from inside a cloud of plasma. And really that shouldn’t work at all, And they just did it anyway. It was terrifying, and I was on the inside, looking out and I was scared.

Then the humans aimed the nose at the mothership. The captain said… And I won’t stop hearing those words ever: “If the Polaron cannons won’t do it, let’s see if ramming speed will do the trick.”

And the crew cheered. They cheered!

I can only imagine the Ixnar command looking down and seeing a hole ripped in the atmosphere, seeing their skiffs flash into non existence and then a boiling finger of cloud just reaching up to point at them.

Did they even remember the human cargo ship that reached out to them? Did they even recognise the glowing white-hot dot of pure fury coming for them?

And when the Polaron cannon lit up, did they even recognise what was happening before their bridge melted?

I hope so. I hope that for a moment they realised they’d fucked up so badly that they got everyone killed and the humans were Big Mad at them.

Me? I was trying not to scream. I was pretty sure that I was going to die, but also? Die like a human. You really understand what blaze of glory means when you’re actually on fire and it doesn’t matter.

Anyway we didn’t have to kill the Ixnar by slamming into them, but the Captain had to eject the engines, and most of the hull because uh, well it was kind of on fire.

Two days later the rescue and relief team picked us up and let me tell you, we were all really drunk at that point.

But yeah.

Humans aren’t dangerous. And yes I would very much like another drink, most kind of you to offer.

[moneeb0930]

𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗟𝗘𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗡 𝗝𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦𝗢𝗡 (1946- )

Shirley Ann Jackson, born in 1946 in Washington, D.C., has achieved numerous firsts for African American women. She was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.); to receive a Ph.D. in theoretical solid state physics; to be elected president and then chairman of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); to be president of a major research university, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York; and to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Jackson was also both the first African American and the first woman to chair the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Jackson’s parents and teachers recognized her natural talent for science and nurtured her interest from a young age. In 1964, after graduating as valedictorian from her high school, Jackson was accepted at M.I.T., where she was one of very few women and even fewer black students. Despite discouraging remarks from her professors about the appropriateness of science for a black woman, she chose to major in physics and earned her B.S. in 1968. Jackson continued at M.I.T. for graduate school, studying under the first black physics professor in her department, James Young. In 1973, she earned her Ph.D.

Shirley Jackson completed several years of postdoctoral research at various laboratories, such as Fermi in Illinois, before being hired by AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1976, where she worked for 15 years. She conducted research on the optical and electronic properties of layered materials, surface electrons of liquid helium films, strained-layer semiconductor superlattices, and most notably, the polaronic aspects of electrons in two-dimensional systems. She is considered a leading developer of Caller ID and Call Waiting on telephones.

After teaching at Rutgers University from 1991-1995, Jackson was appointed chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission by Bill Clinton. In 1999, Jackson became President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she still serves today. In 2004, she was elected president of AAAS and in 2005 she served as chairman of the board for the Society. Dr. Shirley Jackson is married to a physicist and has one son.

[nanotechnologyworld]

Physicists from Princeton University have made a major advance in understanding a form of magnetism known as kinetic magnetism, using ultracold atoms bound in an artificial laser-built lattice. Their experiments, chronicled in a paper published this week in the journal Nature(Link is external), allowed the researchers to directly image the microscopic object responsible for this magnetism, an unusual type of polaron, or quasiparticle that emerges in an interacting quantum system.

[teet-swea]

Particles* I work with as a theoretical chemist, from most typical to wildest:

Proton - Positive vibes, pretty quarky. A classic.

Neutron - Like the proton, but neutral. Sometimes simplicity is best.

Electron - Less than 1/1000th the mass of our first 2 particles. Less mass means more quantum weirdness, which means more fun. At this point, wave-like behavior is becoming pretty significant.

Atom - A particle created from the combination of a nucleus of protons and neutrons and orbiting electrons, atoms are a chemist’s bread and butter. Otherwise, these are pretty straightforward. For simplicity, I’ll be excluding ions from this list, as they’re just atoms either with more or less electrons than they’re supposed to have.

Molecules - Created from several atoms bonded together by shared electrons, molecules are like atoms, but a little more complicated. They can rotate, vibrate, and much more. Molecules can have anywhere from 2 atoms to millions, and it’s molecules that describe most chemical systems.

Photon - The particle form of light. Photons are massless packets of energy that can be freely created or destroyed. This is about the point where things are really getting weird. Let’s see how.

Phonon* - The particle form of lattice vibrations. In a solid, vibrations of individual molecules are not independent of each other; however, these collective vibrations can be separated into a series of fixed patterns with their own energies. Those patterns can then be treated as particles in their own right, creating a “gas” of phonons. At this point, the particle definition is getting stretched quite a bit, but to deal with a system like this, this particle treatment works quite well to simplify the math and make it reasonable to deal with the system.

Hole* - One of the few of these that doesn’t end in “-on”, the hole represents an empty space where an electron should be on a material’s surface. The remaining particles on this list, much like the phonon, are designed to deal with solids in a convenient way. In this case, because the surface is made up of positively charged nuclei with negatively charged electrons on top, removing the electron leaves a positively charged space behind. Turns out, we can say this hole behaves like a particle itself, which moves as electrons shift across the surface. It should also be noted that electrons on a surface are treated differently than in free space, so one could argue that a surface electron is also its own kind of particle*.

Exciton* - We’ve seen that pairing a nucleus and electrons creates an atom, but what if we try to create the surface equivalent? Normally, putting an electron where a hole is would just move the hole, but what if we were to excite the electron so that it orbits around the hole? These are excitons. Excited, neutrally charged hydrogen-like particles on the surface of a solid. This is what my research focuses on.

Plasmon* - As our final particle, we’ll briefly talk about plasmons. I don’t know these particles too well, but from discussion with some colleagues who work with them, a plasmon is the particle form of oscillating electrons either on a surface or in a plasma. These are notably rather similar to phonons, in that we’re just treating the movement of many electrons by dividing them into collective states that we can treat as particles. At this point, the definition of a particle has been stretched pretty well beyond the typical limit, but for these kinds of system, mathematical convenience is beyond just desirable. It’s essential.

This list is not a list of every possible particle or quasiparticle. I’ve omitted antimatter, quarks, and many elementary particles in the standard model on one end, and on the quasiparticle end, I’ve omitted things like polarons (excitons + phonons) and polaritons (excitons/plasmons/phonons + photons). Maybe I’ll discuss these at another point, but there is still much I would like to learn about these kinds of systems. Either way, until next time, byyyyyyeeeeeee.

*Not all of these are “particles” in the traditional sense. Several are just mathematical constructs designed to turn complicated systems into easy things we know. In such cases, one could refer to these as quasiparticles, which can behave like particles well enough for us to model them as such. For clarity, I’ll try to mark all quasiparticles with an asterisk.

[noxpheron]

Scarlet Perversion

Through translucid veil your presence gleamed, a luminous current where oblivion dreamed. Euphoria bloomed in axonal streams, weaving destinies where mind and wonder teem.

Your gaze pried open the polaron of my soul, a coruscant fire forging fractured whole. Your voice became a prism of ardent tone, resonating inevitabilities I had never known.

In ion‑charged communion our essences aligned, entropic rapture birthing vistas unconfined. This scarlet weave entwined me in its mind, impelling every fiber into forms redefined.

Now silence reigns where your bright hand remained, an empty void where ephemeral flame waned. My psyche buckles beneath hollow weight, fracturing cores in a void of spectral fate.

A pallid gravity drags yearning into black, a chasm of absence no solace can track. Each heartbeat echoes lament’s stark refrain, cycling through corridors of sorrow’s domain.

My veins revert to tremor‑phase and freeze, sterile comforts rush where ravening breezes seize. I flinch from phantom sparks that no longer burn, wandering embers in the dark I cannot spurn.

My marrow chills in sublunary abyss, neural panoramas collapse in hollowed bliss. I roam cindered corridors of loss, seeking flares in the fog I dare not gloss.

A spark ignites of burning bitter opioid a herald call from the yawning pitching void. My longing hums in every orphic sigh, chasing ghostly echoes where scarlet currents fly.

My heart swells kinetic in entropic chase, each tremor shaped by your unseen embrace. I tear at cosmic fabric, torn by need’s refrain, ensnared within celestial binds I cannot feign.

Nightly I traverse hyperdense domains, to tap the event horizon of my pain, Obsession bifurcates into manifold streams, quantum ripples curl delirium’s extremes.

Through gravitational lens I chase that gleam, a spectral promise perched on cusp of dream. Each pulsing beat echoes subatomic surmise, awaiting resonance that cleaves me to surprise.

My path loops whorling round addiction’s core, temporal tides dilate boundaries implore. I glimpse the radiant crest of this domain, then plummet back to my terrestrial plane.

Through fevered prism I sense hidden light, each fleeting stranger bears an enfolded spark bright. Their mirrored echoes kindle warmth in dark, weaving me into the world’s uncharted arc.

At last I weave through multi-versal scheme, a conscious thread within the luminous stream. My soul aligned with intangible design, when scarlet perversion blooms divine.

[ackwardrootsinc]

3 on 3 #polaron

https://open.spotify.com/track/03oLnmuFIM4ABv68TAcizp?si=JRGBrGgxQ7-g_uA-6pd3hw

[worldturtlefarm]

3 on 3 #polaron

https://open.spotify.com/track/03oLnmuFIM4ABv68TAcizp?si=JRGBrGgxQ7-g_uA-6pd3hw

[mybam2u]

Afterlife/Otherside Prokaryotes Ectonucleotidase Microtubules projection...

[is-the-vorta-post-cute]

OOC HOUSEKEEPING POST

Yeah, okay, I see we're doing this today. That's fine. I hate going OOC on gimmick blogs but I'd rather endure that embarrassment than pretend everything's okay. So here goes.

Radfems. Are. NOT. WELCOME. HERE.

I'm a nonbinary intersex person. This blog— and the Dominion side of the fandom— is a safe place for trans and intersex people of all genders. Gender essentialism and ""biological sex"" essentialism have no place here. Your entire ideology is rooted in a desire to redefine womanhood as white womanhood and I fucking hate every last one of you.

Don't let the polaron beams hit you on the way out.

—Management

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Discovering quasiparticles ejected from color centers in diamond crystals

A research group led by University of Tsukuba has observed the cooperative behavior of polaron quasiparticles formed by the collective interaction of electrons and lattice vibrations around color centers in diamond crystals. The discovery was achieved by irradiating diamond crystals containing color centers with ultrashort laser pulses and precisely analyzing the resulting reflectance changes. The findings are published in Nature Communications. The presence of nitrogen (N) as an impurity in a diamond crystal can lead to the formation of a vacancy (V) adjacent to a carbon atom, resulting in the creation of a N-V (NV) center. This center considerably influences diamond coloration and constitutes a lattice defect referred to as a color center.

Read more.

[cuprohastes]

The humans have many ships. They're beasts. Built to withstand thier insane, corrosive atmosphere. They like to drop them into atmospheres for braking, or to land so they can walk around.

Don't fuck with human ships, they drop on your world like meteors, then they light their engines and keep going. Half the Galaxy's thought to try their luck and the hulks, with the melted bubbles of polaron cannon hits drift through space, their halls scarred from Human boarding troops.

They say the humans like to leave most of everyone they fight alive, just so they can go home and tell people: Don't fuck with the humans.

Actually, humans just have an amazing amount of empathy and don't like murdering someone who's already beaten. But y'know. PR.

They have a new thing. In inter-colonial conflicts and potential war zones, they drop out of Meta-space like the hammer of an angry god in this giant ship. It's terrifying. It looks like it could slice a planet in two. It looks like everyone's worst nightmare. The apocalypse.

It's the ballast behind the human Combat Ambassadors.

They show up and tell everyone to back down, and then they make everyone re-think.

If they act up, the CA point up and say "Did you see our ride? Think about it. Now imagine we're angry with you. Now imagine what we can do if we're friends."

They diffuse and calm things down. So far, they've been estimated to have saved fourteen planets. You know how many billion people that is?

They call it "The Stanislov".