Tag: physics
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Fermions. Breaking the Lorenz symmetry. Shielding scientific theories from change. Breaking the tea cup.
A weird new particle imitator flouts the established rules of particle physics. The discovery could help scientists simulate how particles behaved just after the Big Bang or lead to the development of new devices with unusual electromagnetic properties. The curious new phenomenon involves a particle-like entity called a quasiparticle, formed from a jostling mosh pit…
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Hawking died. So what?
Hawking died and people around the globe remind us on how much important he was. But was he? Let's see what the man himself would say... “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail,” he told the Guardian. “There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers;…
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Giant atoms. The same as small atoms…
Scientists have proposed a new theory that combines some of the most mysterious phenomena in the Universe - black holes, gravitational waves, and axions - to solve one of the most confounding problems in modern physics. And it's got experts in the field very excited. The theory, which imagines a Universe filled with colossal 'gravitational…
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Ghost images. Glows. At the corners of the universe…
A team of physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) has used a technique known as 'ghost imaging' to create an image of an object from atoms that never interact with it. Lead researcher Associate Professor Andrew Truscott from the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering (RSPE) said the experiment relied on correlated pairs…
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Memories. For ever (changing)…
Conventional memories used in today's computers only differentiate between the bit values 0 and 1. In quantum physics, however, arbitrary superpositions of these two states are possible. Most of the ideas for new quantum technology devices rely on this "Superposition Principle". One of the main challenges in using such states is that they are usually…
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