An electrical trigger fires single, identical photons
Secure telecommunications networks and rapid information processing make much of modern life possible. To provide more secure, faster, and higher-performance…
Physics
Discussion of Time
When Albert Einsteinβs good friend Michele Besso died in 1955, just a few weeks before Einsteinβs own death, Einstein wrote…
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In 1999, the Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail received the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed at which molecules change their…
Do quantum effects play a role in consciousness?
The light of the mind is blue, wrote the poet Sylvia Plath (βThe Moon and the Yew Treeβ 1961). But…
WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY
Waveβparticle duality is the concept in quantum mechanics that every particle or quantum entity may be described as either a…
What is Polchinskiβs paradox?
The Polchinski paradox provides a succinct representation of the complications surrounding time travel at a macroscopic scale. By proposing a…
What Is The ‘Fifth State of Matter’?
Sometimes referred to as the ‘fifth state of matter’, a Bose Einstein Condensate is a state of matter created when…
What Are The States of Matter?
States of matter describe the distinct ways certain groups of particles arrange themselves with various temperatures and forces. Historically, these…
50,000 tons of water and the size of a 15-storey building: this is the Super-Kamiokande, the super neutrino observatory
“Matter is no obstacle for the neutrino. A neutrino could pass through 100 light years of steel without even braking”….