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Quantum Mechanics Not In Jeopardy: Physicists Confirm Decades-Old Key Principle Experimentally Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 1:11PM(PhysOrg.com) -- When waves -- regardless of whether light or sound -- collide, they overlap creating interferences. Austrian and Canadian quantum physicists have now been able to rule out the existence of higher-order interferences experimentally and thereby confirmed an axiom in quantum physics: Born's rule. They have published their findings in the scientific journal Science.
Research and Markets: Foundations of Applied Electrodynamics Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 12:34PMDUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Foundations of Applied Electrodynamics" to their offering.
Don't look down — physicist suggests gravity isn't real Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 12:06AMIt's hard to imagine a more fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life on Earth than gravity, from the moment you first took a step and fell on your diapered bottom to the slow terminal sagging of flesh and dreams.
The promises of teleporting vacations and hover-cars have not worked out as planned Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 1:16AMNot including interest — and I was rich, in that when I was 10 years old and religiously bought magazines every month — I figure you owe me about $6. Rounded off, that’s about what I spent in just one year of buying your publications in the early ‘70s.
New proton measurements may throw physics a curve Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 5:38PMWe may have been overestimating the proton for the last 60 years, if a new experiment has anything to say about it. A group of researchers have tried a new method of measuring the proton's radius that involved getting a muon to orbit it instead of an electron. The new approach is ten times more accurate than the way it has been done since the invention of quantum mechanics, and it has produced a ...
Forget the kidology... England must start producing total footballers Sunday, July 4, 2010 @ 8:17PMYou win nothing with kids, said Alan Hansen, and nobody has let him forget it. If Germany progress beyond Spain at this World Cup, expect him to be mockingly reminded of that famous quote again.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Forget the kidology... England must start producing total footballers Sunday, July 4, 2010 @ 7:21PMFor all we know, this may be Germany’s moment now. Their system works, obviously, but the quality of the raw material could be the bounty of a single point in time.
A fraction too much friction causes physics fisticuffs Monday, June 14, 2010 @ 7:53PMQuick, out behind the bike shed, Professors Pendry and Leonhardt are having a fight over a completely hypothetical situation. If we hurry, we should catch the end of round three. Science: it is exactly like that all the time . It's just that, most of the time, the participants keep their disapproval of each other much more hidden. So what am I talking about? The story takes place in an area of ...
Why Does the Universe Exist? Science May Have the Answer [Answers] Tuesday, May 18, 2010 @ 2:37AM# answers What do scientists have in common with four-year-olds and people who are stoned, besides social ineptitude and a fondness for sweets? They have all asked the question "Why do we exist?" The only difference is, scientists might have an answer. More »
Blog - Quantum Mechanics Explains How Muscle Produces Force Wednesday, April 21, 2010 @ 6:54AMQuantum mechanics explains the full range of force-relaxation curves that muscles produce, according to a new study It wasn't so long ago that biologists would swear blind that their discipline would never be tainted by the strange effects of quantum mechanics. Today, quantum biology is an emerging discipline in many labs around the world and only the brave (or stupid) now argue against the idea ...
This week's 'Lost' recap Tuesday, April 13, 2010 @ 2:00AMBill Ervolino tries to understand Desmond's worlds.
This week's 'Lost' recap Tuesday, April 13, 2010 @ 1:18AMCharlie went for a dip, Penny went for a run and Desmond got the shock of his life in "Happily Ever After," a Desmond-centric episode with an extended sideways flash that managed to be involving and occasionally mind-blowing as it crammed together characters from Desmond’s past and ran their back stories through a salad spinner.
What are the odds? Philosophy and probability Tuesday, April 6, 2010 @ 8:01AMThere's no getting away from probability. If you're worried about global warming, there'll be somebody out there to tell you the chances of a significant increase in temperature over the next few years. Then there are crime rates, the probability of being knocked down by a drunk driver - there's no end to it. But what exactly are we doing when we're attributing a probability, low or high, to an ...
3 West Essex students will attend Governorâs School Friday, April 2, 2010 @ 7:26AMNORTH CALDWELL –Three West Essex Regional High School students were chosen to attend The Governor’s School of New Jersey: Michele Rizzo will attend the School of the Environment; Olivia Perez, the School of the Sciences; and Lynnli Wang, School of Engineering and Technology.
Corporate governance: Schrödinger’s cat and the evaluation of boards Wednesday, March 31, 2010 @ 7:00PMA company’s board and an Austrian moggy may not initially have any obvious connection, but recent corporate governance proposals from the Financial Reporting Council that boards should be subjected to externally facilitated evaluation at least every three years have more in common with Schrödinger’s famous cat than you might think.
Large Hadron Collider sets new record for beam energy -- 3.5 TeV Friday, March 19, 2010 @ 7:25AMOperators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.
Long neglected nutritional training for doctors at all levels needed now Thursday, March 18, 2010 @ 9:03AMThe profession must take advantage of changes in medical education to ensure that all health professionals, but especially gut specialists, are given adequate training in nutrition, urge Dr Penny Nield and colleagues, in the launch issue of Frontline Gastroenterology, the new quarterly companion journal to Gut.
Quantum Sensor Developed by LSU Researcher Breaks New Limits Tuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 5:22PM(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Louisiana State University have invented an optical sensor that surpasses a quantum limit to sensitivity previously believed to be unbeatable. The breakthrough has a broad array of applications, from gravity wave observatories seeking to observe distant and bizarre astrophysical phenomena, to optical gyroscopes used in commercial navigation.
Are the Universe's secrets hiding on a chip? Tuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 2:45PMTopological insulator could help to test quantum field theory.
Prof. Courbage and Prof. Grigolini New Co-Editors-in-Chief of Chaos, Solitons & Fractals Tuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 4:51AMElsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today that Prof. Maurice Courbage and Prof. Paolo Grigolini have been appointed as the new Co-Editors-in-Chief of Chaos, Solitons & Fractals [ http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/967/description# description ]
Panel of renowned authors and thinkers discuss existence of God at Caltech debate Sunday, March 14, 2010 @ 10:21PMPASADENA - A panel of renowned authors and thinkers argued about the existence of God and the future of religion and spirituality Sunday at a debate hosted by the ABC television program "Nightline."
Albert Einstein: birthday greetings [Effect Measure] Sunday, March 14, 2010 @ 3:59PMToday is Einstein's birthday. If he were still alive he'd be 131. Those of you who have been reading here for a long time know that Einstein was (and is) one of my "culture heroes." When I was a kid I sent him birthday cards (yes, I'm that old) and when he died made a scrap book filled with news clippings. One of the great loves of my younger life gave me an Einstein bust as a present and it ...
Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day [Clipjob] Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 3:19PMToday at Gawker.TV, Tracy Morgan takes over Tavis Smiley, Olympic Curling's orgasm noises, more girls that are 16 and Pregnant, Jason Davis has a date with The Millionaire Matchmaker and his monkey,...
Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day [Clipjob] Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 3:19PMToday at Gawker.TV, Tracy Morgan takes over Tavis Smiley, Olympic Curling's orgasm noises, more girls that are 16 and Pregnant, Jason Davis has a date with The Millionaire Matchmaker and his monkey,...
Testing Einstein's Gravitational Redshift Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 3:09PMScientists measure interference between matter waves separated by 0.1 mmWhile airplane and rocket experiments have proved that gravity makes clocks tick more slowly – a central prediction of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity – a new experiment in an atom interferometer measures this slowdown 10,000 times more accurately than before, and finds it to be exactly what Einstein predicted ...
Testing Einstein's Gravitational Redshift Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 3:09PMScientists measure interference between matter waves separated by 0.1 mmWhile airplane and rocket experiments have proved that gravity makes clocks tick more slowly – a central prediction of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity – a new experiment in an atom interferometer measures this slowdown 10,000 times more accurately than before, and finds it to be exactly what Einstein predicted ...
Einstein's gravitational redshift measured with unprecedented precision Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 1:53PMAlbert Einstein's theory of general relativity makes a number of counterintuitive predictions about the workings of gravity, and experimentalists nearly 100 years after the theory was developed continue to confirm those predictions with increasing accuracy. A new paper co-authored by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu measures the gravitational redshift, illustrated by the gravity-induced slowing ...
Einstein's gravitational redshift measured with unprecedented precision Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 1:53PMAlbert Einstein's theory of general relativity makes a number of counterintuitive predictions about the workings of gravity, and experimentalists nearly 100 years after the theory was developed continue to confirm those predictions with increasing accuracy. A new paper co-authored by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu measures the gravitational redshift, illustrated by the gravity-induced slowing ...
Suzuki SX4 SportBack: Good, clean, noisy fun Thursday, February 4, 2010 @ 9:35PMFeverish, strung tight, with an exhaust note that sounds like Santa's elves caught in a wood chipper, the SportBack is the perfect car for those who think perfection is overrated. It's a well-known principle of quantum mechanics that racing stripes make a car faster. Depending on the width and color of the stripes, accessorizing paint schemes can shave 2 seconds off the quarter-mile and add 50 ...
Algae knew about quantum mechanics 2 bln yrs before humans Thursday, February 4, 2010 @ 3:19AMWashington, Feb 4 : In a new study, a team of chemists from the University of Toronto in Canada have observed quantum mechanics at work in photosynthesis in marine algae, which suggests algae knew about quantum mechanics nearly two billion years before humans.
Scientists Find Quantum Mechanics At Work In Photosynthesis Thursday, February 4, 2010 @ 12:23AMA team of University of Toronto chemists have made a major contribution to the emerging field of quantum biology, observing quantum mechanics at work in photosynthesis in marine algae."There's been a lot of excitement and speculation that nature may be using quantum mechanical practices," says chemistry professor Greg Scholes, lead author of a new study published this week in Nature.
Quantum mechanics at work in photosynthesis: Algae familiar with these processes for nearly two billion years Wednesday, February 3, 2010 @ 7:29PMChemists have made a major contribution to the emerging field of quantum biology, observing quantum mechanics at work in photosynthesis in marine algae.
Nature's hot green quantum computers revealed Wednesday, February 3, 2010 @ 12:14PMThe evidence is growing that quantum processes play a crucial role in photosynthesis, even at room temperature
Scientists find quantum mechanics at work in photosynthesis Wednesday, February 3, 2010 @ 12:13PMA team of University of Toronto chemists have made a major contribution to the emerging field of quantum biology, observing quantum mechanics at work in photosynthesis in marine algae.
Quantum photosynthesis Wednesday, February 3, 2010 @ 12:12PMBiologists have traditionally left quantum theory to physicists, but new findings suggest it may play a role in photosynthesis
Seven Essential Elements of Quantum Physics [Uncertain Principles] Wednesday, January 20, 2010 @ 10:59AMThe previous collection of things everyone should know about quantum physics is a little meta-- it's mostly talking up the importance and relevance of the theory, and not so much about the specifics of the theory. Here's a list of essential elements of quantum physics that everyone ought to know, at least in broad outlines: 1) Particles are waves, and vice versa . Quantum physics tells us that ...
Four Things Everybody Should Know About Quantum Physics [Uncertain Principles] Wednesday, January 20, 2010 @ 9:44AMDerek Lowe has a post talking about things biologists should know about medicinal chemistry . It's a good idea for a post topic, so I'm going to steal it. Not to talk about medicinal chemistry, or biologists, of course, but to talk about my own field, and what everyone-- not just scientists-- should know about quantum physics. Not just humans, either-- even dogs should know this stuff . 1 ...
What will the Large Hadron Collider reveal? Thursday, January 7, 2010 @ 5:32PMWith its successful test run at the end of 2009, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, seized the world record for the highest-energy particle collisions created by mankind. We can now reflect on the next questions: What will it discover, and why should we care?
New year, new science Thursday, January 7, 2010 @ 12:59PMNature looks at what key events may come from the research world in 2010.
Iowa State Physicists Starting To See Data From Large Hadron Collider Thursday, January 7, 2010 @ 9:18AMImage Caption: Last month the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider began recording proton-proton collisions at a record energy of 2.36 trillion electron volts. Image courtesy of the ATLAS experiment.
Blog - Quantum Darwinism and the Nature of Reality Thursday, January 7, 2010 @ 7:12AMQuantum Darwinism can explain the nature of classical reality. But is it really a form of natural selection or just an imposter?
TV Watch: Friday, December 4, 2009 @ 5:34AMMark lost his job, his gun, and maybe his soul. Demetri learned the (alleged) identity of his (possible) killer. Simcoe got abducted by those most ruthless of scourges — killer paramedic goons!
Politi: New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick's fourth-down call makes him no less of a genius Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 2:16PMAssociated Press Is Bill Belichick still a coaching genius? Even after his questionable call late in Sunday's game, columnist Steve Politi thinks so. Bill Belichick is no Einstein.
Richard Dawkins at UVA Thursday, October 15, 2009 @ 4:10PMOctober 16, 2009 4:00 pm Friday night photo update: Dawkins speaks and Dawkins signs . *** The world-renowned author of The Selfish Gene and the 1.5-million-selling The God Delusion comes to Charlottesville for a talk in support of his latest best-seller. He is evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins , and his latest is called The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution . ~ He speaks ...
Quantum Computer Chips Closer To Reality Thursday, October 15, 2009 @ 3:06PMIn the quest for smaller, faster computer chips, researchers are increasingly turning to quantum mechanics -- the exotic physics of the small.The problem: the manufacturing techniques required to make quantum devices have been equally exotic.That is, until now.Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered a way to make quantum devices using technology common to the chip-making industry ...
Scientists Find Quantum Fingerprints Of Chaos Thursday, October 8, 2009 @ 9:53AMChaotic behavior is the rule, not the exception, in the world we experience through our senses, the world governed by the laws of classical physics.Even tiny, easily overlooked events can completely change the behavior of a complex system, to the point where there is no apparent order to most natural systems we deal with in everyday life.The weather is one familiar case, but other well-studied ...
Perfect image without metamaterials... and a reprieve for silicon chips (w/ Video) Tuesday, September 29, 2009 @ 4:37AM(PhysOrg.com) -- Since 2000, John Pendry's work on metamaterials has been at the van guard of efforts to create a perfect image - images with perfect resolution that can stem from light being moved in odd directions to create, among other tricks of the light, the illusion of invisibility.
Math, Physics and Mischief Sunday, September 27, 2009 @ 1:22AMI've enjoyed reading the YUdaica contributions of my fellow alumni, but come away with a feeling of unreality. Were we all so mature? So devout? I recall a YU school song, something about "Golden Domes over Amsterdam Avenue." To us they looked patina green.
Darwin Defenders Lash Out at Creationist Origin of Species Friday, September 25, 2009 @ 1:28PMDarwin's defenders lambaste a Christian ministry's 150th anniversary of his landmark book.
Chapman physicist may be finalist for Nobel Prize Thursday, September 24, 2009 @ 8:14PMThomson Reuters predicts that Yakir Aharonov will win in physics.