Ken Brown sends me a nomination for the “best abstract ever”:
Malberg and O’Neil, PRL 39,1333 (1977), “Pure Electron Plasma, Liquid, and Crystal”
Abstract: We speculate on the possibility of liquefying and crystallizing a magnetically confined pure electron plasma.
It has my vote.
Mine too. Few scientists are that concise.
good abstract, good paper
Haven’t read the paper (or RTFA, as Slashdot would say), but it certainly is nice to see an abstract that gets right to the point and doesn’t try and fluff out the paper in an attempt to convince people (let’s say, oh, I don’t know…reviewers?) that the paper is really worth something!
I wonder if the reviewers were inclined to accept it simply for it’s aesthetic appeal?!