Collaborate Disseminate
If quantum physics always sounded a little squirrelly to you, take heart. Yale researchers have announced that they can do what quantum physics claimed to be impossible: they can determine the state a quantum system will collapse to before it happens. This contradicts Schrodinger’s famous hypothetical cat that is superimposed …read more
Researchers from the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore are helping advance a technique involving pairs of entangled light particles to enable stronger cyber security. The project, driven by the NUS-Singtel Cyber Security Research & Devel… Continue reading Scientists advance quantum key distribution tech to strengthen cyber security
The black hole information paradox fascinated Hawking for decades, and is the topic of his final research study. Continue reading Stephen Hawking’s Last Paper Is Now Online
It was World War II and scientists belonging to the Manhattan Project worked on calculations for the atomic bomb. Meanwhile, in one of the buildings, future Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman was cracking the combination lock on a safe because doing so intrigued him. That’s as good a broad summary of Feynman as any: scientific integrity with curiosity driving both his work and his fun.
If you’ve heard of him in passing it may be because of his involvement on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster commission or maybe you’ve learned something from one of his many lectures preserved …read more
Continue reading Richard Feynman: A Life Of Curiosity And Science
It’s getting better, but is it getting better fast enough? Continue reading Breakthrough pushes Quantum Key Distribution beyond 500km
Advanced timekeeping could help unify quantum and gravitational physics, predict earthquakes, and navigate in deep space. Continue reading The Physicist Building the World’s Most Precise Clock
Maria Goeppert-Mayer was one of only two women to win the Nobel prize for physics thus far, the other being Marie Curie. And yet her name isn’t anywhere near as well known as Marie Curie’s. She also worked on the Manhattan Project and spent time during her long career with Enrico Fermi, Max Born, Edward Teller, and many other physics luminaries.
She was “other” in another way too. She followed her husband from university to university, and due to prevailing rules against hiring both husband and wife, often had to take a non-faculty position, sometimes even with no salary. Yet …read more
Continue reading Maria Goeppert-Mayer: The Other Nobel Prize Winner
Hold out your hands in front of you, palms forward. They look quite similar, but I’m sure you’re all too aware that they’re actually mirror images of each other. Your hands are chiral objects, which means they’re asymmetric but not superimposable. This property is quite interesting when studying the physical properties of matter. A chiral molecule can have completely different properties from its mirrored counterpart. In physics, producing the mirror image of something is known as parity. And in 1927, a hypothetical law known as the conservation of parity was formulated. It stated that no matter the experiment or physical …read more
A nice but fatally flawed idea. Continue reading Ultra-Cold Gases Offer Window Into Extra Dimensions, According to New Theory
Good old silicon saves the day. Continue reading Doped Diamonds Push Practical Quantum Computing Closer to Reality
