Computing with light.
Science Daily isn’t talking about fiberoptics. They’re looking at the latest breakthroughs that take the “electrons” out of “electronics” … Read the rest “Computing with light.”
quantum physics
Why is there something? Anything? Instead of nothing?
NPR asks the biggest question of all – the original question. Look around. Why is there something instead of nothing?:
… Read the rest “Why is there something? Anything? Instead of nothing?”The best answer we have at this point is that the Universe emerged
After everything, the Higgs boson still dooms us all. In a few billion years.
Scientific American crunches the numbers that show how the mass of the Higgs boson spells the end of the universe… eventually:
… Read the rest “After everything, the Higgs boson still dooms us all. In a few billion years.”“If you use all the physics that we know now and
Lockheed Martin’s quantum computer steps into the limelight.
New York Times has a pretty good profile of what could be the next big breakthrough in computing – the chips that understand “maybe”:
… Read the rest “Lockheed Martin’s quantum computer steps into the limelight.”[A] powerful new type of computer
We’ll all be staring at quantum dots.
The Economist is gazing into the pretty colors…not of quantum computers, but quantum television screens:
… Read the rest “We’ll all be staring at quantum dots.”An LCD screen works with a backlight shining through red, blue or green
Quantum computers can work.
Laboratory Equipment points the way for the next big breakthrough in thinking machines:
… Read the rest “Quantum computers can work.”Many quantum algorithms require that particles’ spins be “entangled,” meaning that they’re all
Supersymmetry sideswiped. (“No, it doesn’t work that way!” says LHC.)
BBC reports that the Large Hadron Collider is messing up a perfectly neat theory about how the universe fits together:
… Read the rest “Supersymmetry sideswiped. (“No, it doesn’t work that way!” says LHC.)”Supersymmetry, or SUSY, has gained popularity as a way to explain some
Science Art: Fig. 2 – Slit Mechanism from “The Scattering of Hydrogen Positive Rays, and the Existence of a Powerful Field of Force in the Hydrogen Molecule” by G. Thompson in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
I looked for molecules in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character (1905-1934), and this is what… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 2 – Slit Mechanism from “The Scattering of Hydrogen Positive Rays, and the Existence of a Powerful Field of Force in the Hydrogen Molecule” by G. Thompson in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London”
It’s a boson!
If you’re the kind of person who reads these updates here, you already know that CERN has come out and said they’ve found the Higgs boson.
What does that mean?
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Higgs boson “almost certainly exists”
Boston Globe reports on CERN scientists being almost as definite as particle physicists can be, stating that the subatomic particle that makes matter matter seems to have shown up at the… Read the rest “Higgs boson “almost certainly exists””
Weird carbon goes *plasmonic*.
Graphene, as we all now know, is the latest strange form of carbon to wow material scientists with its unusual properties. Well, New Scientist shows that graphene is even stranger than we… Read the rest “Weird carbon goes *plasmonic*.”
So the anarchists are killing scientists now…
I’m getting this from Nature, although New Scientist has also been covering it. A group called “the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary… Read the rest “So the anarchists are killing scientists now…”
There’s a new subatomic particle.
And it’s a USB! Well, that’s what Science Daily says it’s made of, anyway. It’s formally called a “Xi_b^*” and it’s just been spotted at the… Read the rest “There’s a new subatomic particle.”
Science Art: CERN-EX-1107175 01 by the LHCB Team at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
The formal name for this image: LHCb: Event display presented at the EPS-HEP 2011 conference showing a B0s meson decaying into a ?+ and ?- pair.
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Large Hadron researchers: “MORE POWER!”
BBC reports that the Large Hadron Collider is driving toward a new breakthrough. All the physicists have to do is put the pedal to the metal:
… Read the rest “Large Hadron researchers: “MORE POWER!””Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)