Physicist Creates System For Attack-Proof Buildings
15 November 2001 - 12:00pm
A physics professor at the University at Buffalo in New York has created a system that reduces the physical force of impacts. The system could be used to protect buildings from terrorist attacks and earthquakes.
Surajit Sen, a physics professor and theoretical physicist at the University at Buffalo in New York "has created a system he says could protect buildings and other structures from terrorist assaults by reducing the physical force of impacts by up to 95 percent...The theory has caused a buzz in scientific circles..."
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Wired, November 13, 2001
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