• The Sun's magnetic field warps its environment

    Updated: 2010-09-02 14:26:37
    How magnetic flux emerges into the Sun's surroundings

  • Researchers Discover How to Conduct First Test of “Untestable” String Theory

    Updated: 2010-09-01 15:00:08
    A couple people this morning pointed me to today’s press release from Imperial College, headlined Researchers Discover How to Conduct First Test of “Untestable” String Theory and subtitled “New study suggests researchers can now test the ‘theory of everything’”. In case you miss the headline and subtitle, and thus the point that string theory is [...]

  • Knowledge from a vast effort

    Updated: 2010-09-01 12:00:20
    Rasmus Benestad looks at the link between computer models, politics and global warming

  • Quantum Leap: The Laws of Personal Power

    Updated: 2010-09-01 01:54:49
    Source: Jeff Mason, YouTube, August 20, 2010 Published here: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 6:00 AM

  • First African School of Physics empowers students

    Updated: 2010-08-30 23:25:04
    Students from 17 African countries came together for the rare opportunity to learn about particle physics this month. Some African students have earned advanced science degrees but are looking for the specialized training in particle physics and its associated applications not usually offered on their own continent. The first African School of Fundamental Physics and its Applications in Stellenbosch, South Africa, provided that training and financially supported some African students.

  • Hear the New Sound- Faith and Quantum Physics

    Updated: 2010-08-30 21:01:00
    This is the third part of a series I have on You Tube dealing with the Word of God, faith and Quantu

  • More Quantum Postdocapalooza – Um, Due Today

    Updated: 2010-08-30 17:05:15
    Two more postdocs that are due…today and tomorrow.  Better late than never?  First Mic pointed out postdocs at Cambridge: Post-doctoral Research Associates in Quantum Computing, Quantum Information Theory & Foundations Salary: £27,319-£35,646 Limit of tenure: 2 years Closing date: 31 August 2010 The Department invites applications for two post-doctoral research positions to commence on 1st [...]

  • Quantum Physicists Dream Up Smallest Possible Refrigerator

    Updated: 2010-08-30 15:45:34
    ou may have a $10,000 Sub-Zero fridge in your kitchen, but this is cooler. Theoretical physicists ha

  • Dragons and Unicorns

    Updated: 2010-08-30 12:18:25
    When I was an undergraduate I was often told by lecturers that I should find quantum mechanics very

  • The Second International Conference on Quantum Information and Technology

    Updated: 2010-08-29 19:59:40
    ICQIT II: On October 21st and 22nd of 2010, the Japanese National Institute of Informatics will be hosting a satellite conference to the conference “Updating Quantum Cryptography and Communications 2010″ (www.uqcc2010.org <http://www.uqcc2010.org/>).  This will be a follow up to our conference in 2009, “The Second International Conference on Quantum Information and Technology (ICQIT)” http://www.qis.ex.nii.ac.jp/icqit2010/index.html,  We [...]

  • Quantum Postdocapalooza

    Updated: 2010-08-29 19:18:17
    Quantum postdocs aplenty. First up, David Poulin sends a letter about multiple postdocs at the Université de Sherbrooke: I would like to bring to your attention several open postdoctoral positions in Sherbrooke on various aspects of theoretical and experimental quantum information processing, including: Experimental realization of spin qubits in various materials (GaAs, SiGe, InAs, NV [...]

  • QIP 2011 Call for Submissions Lah

    Updated: 2010-08-27 15:17:33
    QIP on the equator: QIP 2011 Call for submissions 14th workshop on Quantum Information Processing Tutorials January 8-9, NUS, Singapore Workshop January 10-14, The Capella, Sentosa Singapore Conference Website: http://qip2011.quantumlah.org Paper Submission: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qip2011 Quantum Information Processing (QIP) is a rapidly developing field of research spanning both physics and computer science. As the name implies, the [...]

  • The Particle Physics Song

    Updated: 2010-08-26 15:41:54
    Members of the CERN choir sing an ode the Higgs boson to the tune of "The Hippopotamus Song" by Flanders and Swann.

  • Double A-G in TR35

    Updated: 2010-08-26 04:22:26
    Congrats to Alán Aspuru-Guzik for landing a spot on MIT Tech review’s 2010 Young Innovators under 35: In theory, quantum mechanics should offer perfect understanding of some of the most interesting events in chemistry–for example, the behavior of excited electrons, which controls such things as photosynthesis in plants. In practice, however, the necessary calculations are [...]

  • Karma and the entanglement of free will

    Updated: 2010-08-25 19:31:59
    Image via Wikipedia A few weeks ago my guru passed along a video entitled, “What the BLEEP Do

  • Quantum entanglement and free will

    Updated: 2010-08-25 19:11:11
    A little more closely related than you might think. From the link: In practical terms, this means th

  • Fuchs Wins Quantum Communications Award

    Updated: 2010-08-24 19:40:22
    Congrats to Chris Fuchs for winning? the “International Quantum Communication Award”: WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada, August 2010 – PI researcher Christopher Fuchs has been awarded the International Quantum Communication Award at the 10th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation (QCMC) for his “outstanding contributions to the theory of quantum communication including quantum state disturbance.” [...]

  • Does it matter that we don't know why?

    Updated: 2010-08-24 06:09:54
    The more we learn the more we realize that we don’t have a clue. “Science is all about i

  • The Uncertainty Principle

    Updated: 2010-08-23 10:01:40
    One striking aspect of the difference between classical and quantum physics is that whereas classica

  • Quantum Entanglement - "Spooky Action at a Distance"

    Updated: 2010-08-22 04:57:41
    What is Quantum Entanglement? http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-entangle/ Quantum Entanglement an

  • Quantum Mechanics and Libertarianism

    Updated: 2010-08-21 03:21:28
    One of the most important premises behind quantum physics is to understand its indeterminacy.  My qu

  • Math’s highest honor given for work in mathematical physics

    Updated: 2010-08-20 22:18:06
    It was a good week for mathematical physics. Three of the four winners of the 2010 Fields Medal, considered the Nobel Prize for mathematics, were honored for studies in the field.

  • Undergraduate School on Experimental QIP

    Updated: 2010-08-20 17:51:23
    The Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, Canada, will once again go ahead with its Undergraduate School on Experimental Quantum Information Processing (USEQIP 2011). We have locked down our dates for May 30th to June 10th, 2011. Please pass this information to any Undergraduate student that may be interested. (http://go.iqc.ca/useqip2011) USESIP is [...]

  • Tunneling Frogs?

    Updated: 2010-08-18 17:40:08
    The Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, Canada, will once again go ahead with its Undergraduate School on Experimental Quantum Information Processing (USEQIP 2011). We have locked down our dates for May 30th to June 10th, 2011. Please pass this information to any Undergraduate student that may be interested. (http://go.iqc.ca/useqip2011) USESIP is [...]

  • Hype or Not Hype?

    Updated: 2010-08-06 20:27:54
    The high point of my expertise in condensed matter physics was about thirty years ago, when I studied the subject in order to pass one of the general exams at Princeton. At the party after the test was graded, Phil Anderson came up to (after a fashion…) compliment me, noting that he was glad to [...]

  • Quantum Entanglement. No it's not a romance novel.

    Updated: 2010-08-01 22:03:33
    From Scientists Take Quantum Steps Toward Teleportation by NPR Staff Brad Horn/NPR Christopher Monro

  • Quantum entanglement and teleportation

    Updated: 2010-07-27 10:28:09
    Ravi's Blog Home About RSS Feed Quantum entanglement and teleportation Leave a comment

  • Newswire: CERN - ICHEP 2010 conference highlights first results from the LHC

    Updated: 2010-07-26 07:00:00
    Geneva, 26 July 2010. First results from the LHC at CERN1 are being revealed at ICHEP, the world's largest international conference on particle physics, which has attracted more than 1000 participants to its venue in Paris. The spokespersons of the four major experiments at the LHC - ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb - are today presenting measurements from the first three months of successful LHC operation at 3.5 TeV per beam, an energy three and a half times higher than previously achieved at a particle accelerator.

  • Newswire: Fermilab experiments narrow allowed mass range for Higgs boson

    Updated: 2010-07-26 05:00:00
    Batavia, Ill.- New constraints on the elusive Higgs particle are more stringent than ever before. Scientists of the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab revealed their latest Higgs search results today (July 26) at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, held in Paris from July 22-28. Their results rule out a significant fraction of the allowed mass range established by earlier experiments.

  • Newswire: CNRS/IN2P3 and CEA - PRESS INVITATION ICHEP 2010

    Updated: 2010-07-13 05:00:00
    LHC and high energy physics: latest results and future prospects What are the latest results in the search for the Higgs boson? How are LHC experiments progressing? What are the first clues of the existence of dark matter? What is the latest on neutrinos? CNRS/IN2P3 (1) and CEA invite you to attend the press conference : "LHC and high energy physics: latest results and future prospects" When? Monday 26 July 2010 Time? 1pm Paris time (CEST) Where? at the Palais des Congrès (Salle Maillot) 2 Place de la Porte Maillot - 75017 Paris, France (Underground line 1 - Porte Maillot-Palais des Congrès, Regional railway line RER C Neuilly-Porte Maillot-Palais des Congrès)

  • Newswire: IUPAP - IUPAP Awards Young Scientist Prize in Particle Physics

    Updated: 2010-07-12 05:00:00
    The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) today announced the award of its Young Scientist Prizes in Particle Physics. The awards have been made to: Florencia Canelli, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, for her pioneering contribution to the identification and precision measurements of rare phenomenon through the use of advanced analysis techniques to separate very small signals from large background processes at the Tevatron collider.

  • Newswire: InterAction Collaboration - World's Particle Physics Labs Take Amateur Photographers Behind the Scenes

    Updated: 2010-07-08 05:00:00
    8 July 2010 - Picture this: For the first time, amateur photographers around the world collide with the past, present and future of particle physics. Five of the world's leading particle physics laboratories will make the image a reality when they join together to host a Particle Physics Photowalk on 7 August. More than 200 people will have the rare opportunity to photograph state-of-the-art accelerators and detectors in all their beauty and complexity. Photographers will benefit from special behind-the-scenes access to laboratories in Asia, Europe and North America, with tours tailored to the creative eye.

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