Month: August 2007
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Astronomy v particle physics
“The traditional realm of astronomy is the observation and study of the largest objects in the Universe, while the traditional domain of high-energy physics is the study of the smallest things in nature. But these two sciences concerned with opposite ends of the size spectrum are…bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be…
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Quantum dilemmas
Ya wake up in the cells, your head a-boomin and a-thumpin. An officer helps loosen ya tongue, Guantamo style, and before ya even had breakfast, he’s a-shoutin and a-rantin for a confession. There’s even a deal on the table. Rat on ya buddy in the next cell and the judge’ll cutcha some slack. Keep schtum…
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Why does the wine glass sing?
Ah know ya’ll like a tipple or two. Who don’t? So ya’ll know how a-strokin and a-rubbin a wet finger on a wine glass can put some sounds up. Now Oleg “Chaser” Kirillov at Moscow State Lomonosov University says we ain’t got no ah-dear how this process of sound generation works. And to clarify things…
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A loophole in quantum cryptography
I ain’t gonna stick my neck out on this but Peter “Raptor” Rapcan has something a-boilin and a-bubblin over at the Slovak Academy of Sciences which could send all youse quantum cryptographers a-scuttlin back to your theory books. When ya’ll measure the state of a quantum particle, I betcha that ya’ll expect the information about…