SONG: Nine Dangshen Flowers
SONG: “Nine Dangshen Flowers”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance,” Science, 15 Jun 2017, as used in the post “Here’s […]
quantum physics
Here’s your sub-space radio: China gets quantum entanglement to work from orbit.
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 […]
SONG: The Ring I Made For You (A Time-Crystal Canon)
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 […]
“It’s still fricking weird”: Physicist on the creation of time crystals.
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 […]
We can build a quantum computer today. But it’ll be as big as a stadium.
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 […]
Science Art: Anyone Can Quantum, by IQIM Caltech
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 […]
SONG: Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)
SONG: “Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “Lasers used to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum”, Science Daily, 7 Sep 2015, as […]
A laser levitating glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum.
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 […]
SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential AJ Allulli cover)
SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a cover making up for a late […]
Science Art: Text-fig. 5. – Model of electron paths, 1946
Click to embiggen It looks like a wrought-iron finial for a curtain rod. It’s actually a demonstration of how electrons can be used as a […]
Anesthesia works by stealing electrons from your brain.
Scientific American has more on the weird quantum effects that make consciousness go bye-bye: General anaesthetics may extinguish consciousness through mysterious quantum biological effects that […]
MIT astrophysicists set to detect just *how* weird the universe really is.
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 […]
Google Street View goes inside the Large Hadron Collider.
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 […]
Science Art: Beetle (ASIC) by Sven Loechner
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 […]
NASA engages the warp drive.
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 […]