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Here’s your sub-space radio: China gets quantum entanglement to work from orbit.

15 June 2017 grant 0

Science magazine reports on the latest Chinese space breakthrough – one that could lead to instant communication with distant spaceships, or hack-proof communications here on… Read the rest “Here’s your sub-space radio: China gets quantum entanglement to work from orbit.”

SONG: The Ring I Made For You (A Time-Crystal Canon)

23 March 2017 grant 0

SONG: “The Ring I Made For You (A Time-Crystal Canon).”

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE:The quest to crystallize time,” Nature, 8 Mar 2017, as used in the post “
‘It’s
… Read the rest “SONG: The Ring I Made For You (A Time-Crystal Canon)”

“It’s still fricking weird”: Physicist on the creation of time crystals.

8 March 2017 grant 0

Nature describes how “dirty diamonds” (and other delights) can be used to make crystals that “pulse” without using any energy:

The name sounds like a prop from

… Read the rest ““It’s still fricking weird”: Physicist on the creation of time crystals.”

We can build a quantum computer today. But it’ll be as big as a stadium.

2 February 2017 grant 0

Nature pores over the blueprints drawn up using today’s technology… and a $126 million budget… for the next big step in computing power:

“Yes it will be big, yes it will

… Read the rest “We can build a quantum computer today. But it’ll be as big as a stadium.”

Science Art: Anyone Can Quantum, by IQIM Caltech

28 January 2016 grant 0

This is far funnier and more exciting than it has any right to be.

Stephen Hawking playing chess over a computer with Paul Rudd.

For the fate of the future.

Caltech’s Institute for Quantum

… Read the rest “Science Art: Anyone Can Quantum, by IQIM Caltech”

SONG: Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)

24 September 2015 grant 0

SONG: “Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE:Based on “Lasers used to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum”, Science… Read the rest “SONG: Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)”

A laser levitating glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum.

10 September 2015 grant 0

Science Daily might not be as into the poetry of that phrase as I am. They’re more into what it means make a diamond that halfway isn’t there:

The research team is led by Nick Vamivakas

… Read the rest “A laser levitating glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum.”

SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential AJ Allulli cover)

11 January 2015 grant 0

SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: This is a cover making up for… Read the rest “SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential AJ Allulli cover)”

Science Art: Text-fig. 5. – Model of electron paths, 1946

23 November 2014 grant 0

Ockenden_ModelElectronPaths1946
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It looks like a wrought-iron finial for a curtain rod. It’s actually a demonstration of how electrons can be used as a lens – how an electron microscope make… Read the rest “Science Art: Text-fig. 5. – Model of electron paths, 1946”

Anesthesia works by stealing electrons from your brain.

14 August 2014 grant 0

Scientific American has more on the weird quantum effects that make consciousness go bye-bye:

General anaesthetics may extinguish consciousness through mysterious quantum biological

… Read the rest “Anesthesia works by stealing electrons from your brain.”

MIT astrophysicists set to detect just *how* weird the universe really is.

26 February 2014 grant 0

DailyGalaxy.com shares the weird – an experiment that’s been proposed to tell for once and for all if classical physics can explain the universe, or if everything there is … Read the rest “MIT astrophysicists set to detect just *how* weird the universe really is.”

Google Street View goes inside the Large Hadron Collider.

1 October 2013 grant 0

Says it all right there. You want to see inside the world’s largest particle accelerator? Street View will take you into the underground tunnels:

We’re delighted that CERN opened

… Read the rest “Google Street View goes inside the Large Hadron Collider.”

Science Art: Beetle (ASIC) by Sven Loechner

22 September 2013 grant 0

Beetle_ASIC

The Beetle (ASIC) is a chip designed for the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator designed to recreate the Big Bang.

It’s part of the quark-detection equipment … Read the rest “Science Art: Beetle (ASIC) by Sven Loechner”

NASA engages the warp drive.

29 August 2013 grant 0

Space.com brings us hurtling into the future with the science of quantum thrusters… a real-life warp drive:

A warp-drive-enabled spacecraft would look like a football with two

… Read the rest “NASA engages the warp drive.”

Science Art: Positron Discovery by C.D. Anderson

16 June 2013 grant 0

PositronDiscovery

That scratch going up the left half of the picture might look like an accidental blemish, but it’s actually the first trace of a positron (a fundamental unit of antimatter) ever recorded.… Read the rest “Science Art: Positron Discovery by C.D. Anderson”

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