Here's some interesting links, for those you of you who's ears perk up when science fiction becomes science fact (or nearly so):

Atom Lasers:
http://physics.nist.gov/Divisions/Div842/Gp4/AtomOptics/index.html
(has potential for creating matter holograms, among other things)

Wigner Crystals:
http://www.newswise.com/articles/1999/2/WIGNER.LSU.html
(new form of matter; electrons flow in a crystalline formation)

Smart Nanotubes:
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/nanotubes.html
(also see related link below)

Nanotube Computers:
http://www.lbl.gov/Tech-Transfer/techs/lbnl1241.html

And, um, this Hubble pic was just plain interesting:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/08/index.html
(the blue curved streak... is it really an asteroid? or is it thrusting?)


- Jo"JustLookingForInterestingConversations"hn W.