Some people are fans of the Carolina Panthers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Carolina Panthers. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in. McDonald’s Szechuan Sauce, the limited edition dipping sauce that was briefly available in the summer of 1998 as promotion for Disney’s Mulan, is Rick Sanchez’s. The Buffalo Bills were getting after Cam Newton all game, and unfortunately, one hit finally did some real damage, with two defenders smothering Newton and forcing. Bad news: Humans will probably never explore the area around a black hole, at least while you’re alive. That’s mostly because most black holes are too far away.

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Scientists Just Observed an Effect of Gravity on Tiny Particles For the First Time. Bad news: Humans will probably never explore the area around a black hole, at least while you’re alive. That’s mostly because most black holes are too far away, and even if we could travel to them, it’s unlikely we’d survive their gravitational pull. That means that if we want to study the wacky effects extreme gravity might have, we’ve gotta get creative—which is exactly what an international team of physicists have just done. Those physicists are now reporting a so- called “gravitational anomaly” in a special kind of material, called a Weyl semimetal.

The paper’s results and experimental setup could have important applications in the near future—the authors told me it might let you one day charge a phone by rubbing it on your leg. But others were most excited about how the relatively new Weyl semimetals will allow for observations of gravitational effects in these strange models.“It’s really the first time ever to see it within an experiment, even though it is only by the analogy,” Subir Sachdev, Harvard physics professor who was not involved in the study, told Gizmodo. Nevertheless, in all of physics, no one has seen anything like this.”“Gravitational anomaly” refers to an effect the shape of spacetime itself can have on the behavior of “fermions,” the category of particles that includes electrons. All particles come with an innate property called “spin,” and in electrons, scientists observe that value as “up” or “down.” On top of that, if fermions have no mass, they should always be moving, according to the laws of physics—that’s just what massless things do. The spin can then point in either the same direction or the opposite direction that the particles are moving—this is called “chirality,” or handedness.

Gravitational anomaly says that changes in the shape of space can cause an imbalance in this handedness. No, scientists can’t change the shape of spacetime in a lab. Instead, they needed a really good analogue for a massless fermion traveling through a warped spacetime.

A special kind of crystal called a Weyl semimetal served as “space.” Weyl semimetals are special because their electrons behave as if they were massless, always moving, explained Karl Landsteiner from the Autonomous University of Madrid. They added a temperature gradient which was meant to stand in for gravity, and watched as the symmetry broke—the particles’ handedness swapped, resulting in an imbalance in the chirality. The researchers published their results today in the journal Nature.“So what it tells us about the world is that the gravitational anomaly effect might exist,” study author Johnannes Gooth from the University of Hamburg and IBM Research told Gizmodo.

What the heck, you might think—temperature and gravity aren’t the same thing. This might even remind you of last year’s experiment where a scientist seemed to prove that black holes radiate, but used sound waves instead of real particles. But the scientists I spoke to, both those involved and outside sources, assured me that Albert Einstein’s theories imply that the temperature gradient and the energy gradient in gravity can be treated similarly. If something works for one, it should work for the other.“No one doubts the analogy between energy radiance and gravitational fields,” Sachdev told me. This is pretty good as far as I’m concerned.” And observing the effect with gravity would be more or less impossible. You’d need a strong gravitational field,” Sachdev said.

You’d probably have to go near a black hole, which no one has ever done.”You also might wonder why IBM cares about this. Aside from being a cool proof that the shape of space itself can influence particles, having this level of control over the behavior of moving electric charges could have important technological applications. There’s long been a thought that we could generate electricity simply through heat gradients, changing temperatures in some electricity- generating medium. But this is a very inefficient process,” said Gooth. That’s because normal electrons are bad at this heat conversion process. But we believe now with this gravitational anomaly we can circumvent certain limits and make this conversion very very efficient.”The thought is that one day in the future, this gravitational anomaly might let you charge your phone by rubbing it against your pants. Everyone I spoke to seemed to agree that these applications were far off, and were mainly excited about the observation of this wacky behavior in a wacky system.

And there’s no limit to imagining where else it might occur.“This [gravitational anomaly] is obeyed in all certain kinds of physical systems,” said Gooth. It has to be obeyed in stars, the early universe or in our transistors.”[Nature].

Mc. Donald's Is Bringing Back Rick and Morty's Beloved Szechuan Sauce From Another Dimension [Updated]Mc. Donald’s Szechuan Sauce, the limited edition dipping sauce that was briefly available in the summer of 1. Disney’s Mulan, is Rick Sanchez’s singular reason for traversing the multiverse. Just in time for the show’s third season return, a Mc.

Donald’s chef has brought the sauce back. At this year’s San Diego Comic- Con, Rick and Morty co- creator Justin Roiland joked that he’d been in contact with Mc. Donald’s after the show’s third season premiere prominently featured the sauce. After the episode aired, thousands of fans petitioned for Mc. Donald’s to bring it back and a single bottle of the stuff sold for $1.

Bay. Last night, Roiland took to Twitter to reveal that Mc. Donald’s lived up to their promise and sent him a single 6. Szechuan Sauce from an alternate dimension where it’s always 1. Along with the sauce was a note from one of Mc. Donald’s chefs named Mike (there are a couple of them) explaining the lengths they had to go to in order to procure the sauce.

Mike wrote: “We wish we could have brought more sauce through, but we couldn’t risk keeping a portal like that open. Think about it, if you knew in 1. Mc. Donald’s would have All Day Breakfast in 2. Of course not. If we left the portal open, we’d have puka shells, bucket hats, and boy bands as far as the eye could see. It’s too risky, even for a sauce as delicious as this.”While Roiland got the first bottle, Chef Mike added that “a few lucky fans will get to experience the glory” meaning that the fast food giant is probably planning to roll it out for another limited time run. Update: This morning, Mc. Donalds posted a new picture of three more jugs of the sauce to its Twitter feed along with the time and date of Rick and Morty’s return tonight on Adult Swim.

It’s coming back, folks.