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New Law of Physics Could Explain Quantum Mysteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the early days of quantum mechanics, scientists have been trying to understand the many strange implications of the theory: superpositions, wave-particle duality, and the observer’s ...

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Novel probe for ultracold quantum matter developed

(Phys.org) -- In a paper published in the May 20, 2012 edition of the journal Nature Physics, a research group from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University reports the development and de ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Single molecules in a quantum movie

The quantum physics of massive particles has intrigued physicists for more than 80 years, since it predicts that even complex particles can exhibit wave-like behaviour – in conflict with our everyday ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A new 'lens' for looking at quantum behavior

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, researchers Daniel Terno (Macquarie University, Australia) and Radu Ionicioiu (Institute of Quantum Computing, Canada) provide a new perspe ...

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created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Physicists find that an ultrahigh-energy proton looks like a black disk

(PhysOrg.com) -- What does a proton look like? The common answer to this question is that protons are much too small to scatter light, and since light is necessary for us to see things, protons do not “look” ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 43 | with audio podcast feature

Hippie days: How a handful of countercultural scientists changed the course of physics in the 1970s

Every Friday afternoon for several years in the 1970s, a group of underemployed quantum physicists met at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, in Northern California, to talk about a subject so peculiar it was rarely ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Study finds single photons cannot exceed the speed of light

(PhysOrg.com) -- The rule that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, c, is one of the most fundamental laws of nature. But since this speed limit has only been experimentally demonstrated for ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (28) | comments 91 | with audio podcast feature

Nothing, not anything and zero

(PhysOrg.com) -- Space and time are inextricably linked, which is why astrophysicists speak of them in the same breath.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Research uses quantum mechanics to melt glass at absolute zero

Quantum mechanics, developed in the 1920s, has had an enormous impact in explaining how matter works. The elementary particles that make up different forms of matter -- such as electrons, protons, neutrons and photons -- ...

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created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Can fluid dynamics offer insights into quantum mechanics?

In the first decades of the 20th century, physicists hotly debated how to make sense of the strange phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as the tendency of subatomic particles to behave like both particles ...

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created Oct 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 47 | with audio podcast

Quantum physicists turn waste heat into power

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona physicists have discovered a new way of harvesting waste heat and turning it into electrical power. Taking advantage of quantum effects, the technology holds great promise ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (38) | comments 35 | with audio podcast


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