News tagged with fundamental physics
Scientists to study diamond-based quantum information processing, communication
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- In the quest for quantum information processing, diamonds may be a physicist's best friend.
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What if there is only one universe?
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lee Smolin, author of the bestselling science book The Trouble with Physics and a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, ...
Exploring the standard model of physics without the high-energy collider
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, have performed sophisticated laser measurements to detect the subtle effects of one of nature's most ...
Quantum paradox directly observed -- a milestone in quantum mechanics
Mar 04, 2009 |
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In quantum mechanics, a vanguard of physics where science often merges into philosophy, much of our understanding is based on conjecture and probabilities, but a group of researchers in Japan has moved one ...
New physics theory prize names first recipient
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Pioneering theorist and Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson has been named the first recipient of the Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas. Anderson will receive a $10,000 honorarium ...
Researchers could herald a new era in fundamental physics
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Cardiff University researchers who are part of a British-German team searching the depths of space to study gravitational waves, may have stumbled on one of the most important discoveries in physics according to an American ...
Vanquishing infinity: Old methods lead to a new approach to finding a quantum theory of gravity
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of general relativity are both extremely accurate theories of how the universe works, but all attempts to combine the two into a unified theory have ended in failure. ...
Using superconducting probes to get a picture of what it's like inside CNTs
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Carbon nanotubes are exciting for fundamental physics, and for potential technological applications," Nadya Mason tells PhysOrg.com. "However, we are generally limited in the way that we can study them. ...
Quantum ghosts are helpful
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The idea that far distant particles can somehow 'talk' to each other worried Einstein so much that he called it 'spooky action at a distance'.
Article examines rare quantum physics effect
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There's nothing University of Nebraska-Lincoln physicist Herman Batelaan likes more than a challenge. And there are few areas of science more challenging than working at the sub-atomic, or ...
Belle Finds a Hint of New Physics in Extremely Rare B Decays
Sep 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Quarks, the most fundamental constituents of matters, are classified into six species grouped into three generations as predicted by Professors Kobayashi and Maskawa. The purpose of the B ...
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