Physicist Creates System For Attack-Proof Buildings

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.

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November 15, 2001, 12:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

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..."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Building Attack-Proof Buildings

Tuesday, November 13, 2001 in Wired

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