Entangled diamonds.
It’s, Ars Technica explains, a quantum thing – but looking bigger:
… Read the rest “Entangled diamonds.”Normally, two particles that can be described using separate mathematical descriptions. But, under certain
quantum physics
Did they just find the God Particle? (Answer…)
…Probably.
And now, they know where to look the next time they fire up the big collider – in the 124 to 126 GeV (gigaelectron volt) range.
… Read the rest “Did they just find the God Particle? (Answer…)”Taken individually, none of these excesses
Did they just find the God Particle?
On the BBC, a CERN physicist just dramatically announced that they’ve found the Higgs boson… maybe:
… Read the rest “Did they just find the God Particle?”The two teams of scientists work independently, using two separate detectors
Photon machines
Science Daily points the way for the next information revolution. Not using electrons, but light itself:
… Read the rest “Photon machines”The merging of two technologies under development — plasmonics and nanophotonics
Violin and quanta.
New Scientist listens to the art of subatomic particles:
… Read the rest “Violin and quanta.”The performance is the brainchild of composer and computer scientist Alexis Kirke from the University of Plymouth, UK, who has
Quantum eyes.
Migrating robins have something better than magnets in their heads, Wired reports. They’ve got quantum sensors in their eyes:
… Read the rest “Quantum eyes.”European robins may maintain quantum entanglement
Subatomic sound.
NPR takes us on an audio tour of the Large Hadron Collider with a physicist who’s translating subatomic particles into sounds:
… Read the rest “Subatomic sound.”“I have some musician friends that I was talking
Science Art: Hydrogen Density Plots, by PoorLeno
The way we grew up thinking about atoms – like teeny tiny solar systems with electrons orbiting a nucleus like planets around a sun – is wrong. They move in clouds… Read the rest “Science Art: Hydrogen Density Plots, by PoorLeno”
SONG: The Stick That Never Strikes the Snare
SONG: “The Stick That Never Strikes the Snare” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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Quantum drum beats without beating.
Nature reports on the first object large enough to see that’s been put into the quantum state of neither moving nor not-moving:
… Read the rest “Quantum drum beats without beating.”Cleland and his team took a more direct measure of quantum
SONG: A Tiny Golden Mean
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A tiny Golden Mean.
Science Daily looks at the hidden symmetry lying inside all things where we can’t see it:
… Read the rest “A tiny Golden Mean.”Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), in cooperation
Every circle is alive.
This sounds awfully New Agey for Yale, but apparently, physicists there have discovered that metal circles have a tiny amount of persistent energy flowing through them eternally:
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We can see electrons.
Or, well, their valences, which is as good as it gets without Heisenberg getting in the way. Yeah, the Corante Pipeline has a post describing what it’s like to look inside atoms:
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I’ve been saying it all along.
This science comic tells the truth.
They do, you know.