Quantum Mechanics

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Scientist Discovers Time Teleportation

3:20PM January 18, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Physicists at the University of Queensland in Australia claim to have discovered time teleportation, no flux capacitors involved: Just like quantum physics allows for teleportation in space, they say that the same is possible in time. Time travel to… the future! More »


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The Ultimate Field Guide To Subatomic Particles

8:40AM September 17, 2010 | Alasdair Wilkins

Muons, neutrinos, supersymmetric partners, the infamous Higgs boson – with so many different subatomic particles flying about, it’s no wonder theoretical physics can be so confusing. That’s why we made this (reasonably) simple guide to all the different elementary particles. More »


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Lasers Could Make Virtual Particles Real

6:20AM August 19, 2010 | David Shiga - New Scientist

Next-generation lasers will have the power to create matter by capturing ghostly particles that, according to quantum mechanics, permeate seemingly empty space. More »


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Quantum Computers Could Overturn Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

12:59AM August 4, 2010 | Alasdair Wilkins

The uncertainty principle is at the foundation of quantum mechanics: You can measure a particle’s position or its velocity, but not both. Now it seems that quantum computer memory could let us violate this rule. More »


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New Proton Size Breaks Laws Of Physics

3:40AM July 9, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

A new measurement of the proton particle shows that it is 0.00000000000003 millimetres smaller than previously thought. It may seem irrelevant, but physicists are freaking out. I hope this doesn’t mean we are going to cease to exist anytime soon. More »


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Quantum Encryption Makes Messages You Can Only Read In One Location

9:20AM April 29, 2010 | New Scientist

The problem with messages is that you can’t be sure who might pick them up at the other end. But a new scheme for a quantum communications ensures only a recipient in exactly the right location can read their message. More »


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Researchers Witness And Image Atomic Spin For The First Time

8:20AM April 28, 2010 | Clay Dillow - Popular Science

Theoretically speaking, we could exponentially increase computing power by manipulating the way in which electrons in individual atoms spin. Researchers in Germany have seen atomic spin for the very first time and captured a few tiny images to prove it. More »


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Quantum Mechanics Observed By The Human Eye

7:30AM March 22, 2010 | Jack Loftus

Remember when just the other day we were talking about the future of storage and how quantum mechanics is on the pipe dream, it’s totally magic list for now? Yeah. Me too. Thing is, shit just got real: Updated. More »


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Giz Explains: Why Quantum Computing Is The (Distant) Future

4:00AM August 20, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

Over 400 million transistors are packed on dual-core chips manufactured using Intel’s 45nm process. That’ll double soon, per Moore’s Law. And it’ll still be like computing with pebbles compared to quantum computing. More »