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Study Rules Out Fröhlich Condensates in Quantum Consciousness Model

Study Rules Out Fröhlich Condensates in Quantum Consciousness Model

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (36) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists don't fully understand how consciousness works, and, so far, no classical theories can explain consciousness in the brain. In light of this lack of understanding, some researchers ...





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Podcast: Reproducing a Black Hole in the Laboratory, and other Quantum Theories

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a recent study, Professor of Physics and Astronomy Miles Blencowe and his colleagues proposed a new way of creating a reproduction black hole in the laboratory.


Discovery of 'alert status' area in brain opens door to treatment of impaired consciousness disorders

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new understanding of how anesthesia and anesthesia-like states are controlled in the brain opens the door to possible new future treatments of various states of loss of consciousness, such as reversible coma, according ...


UCSC physicists explore a boundary of their discipline in new book, Quantum Enigma

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 19, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Quantum mechanics, one of the most successful theories in all of science, says some strange things about the fundamental nature of the world. For all practical purposes, physicists can and do ignore the bizarre implications ...


Scientists find that individuals in vegetative states can learn

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Scientists have found that some individuals in the vegetative and minimally conscious states, despite lacking the means of reporting awareness themselves, can learn and thereby demonstrate at least a partial consciousness. ...


Experiments at UCSB push quantum mechanics to higher levels

Pushing quantum mechanics to higher levels

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have devised a new type of superconducting circuit that behaves quantum mechanically -- but has up to five levels of energy instead of the usual two. The findings are published ...


Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- While quantum dots have existed since the 1980s, only in the past decade have physicists successfully created lateral few-electron single quantum dots. These quantum dots enable physicists ...


Quantum Mysticism: Gone but Not Forgotten

Quantum Mysticism: Gone but Not Forgotten

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (52) | comments 43

Does mysticism have a place in quantum mechanics today, or is the idea that the mind plays a role in creating reality best left to philosophical meditations? Harvard historian Juan Miguel Marin argues the ...


Consciousness is the brain's Wi-Fi, resolving competing requests, study suggests

Consciousness is the brain's Wi-Fi, resolving competing requests, study suggests

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 9

Your fingers start to burn after picking up a hot plate. Should you drop the plate or save your meal? New research suggests that it is your consciousness that resolves these dilemmas by serving as the brain's ...


Researchers find quantum errors do compute

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from The University of Queensland have found the emerging field of quantum computing may be more stable than previously thought.


Coupling of Single Quantum Dots to Smooth Metal Films

Coupling of Single Quantum Dots to Smooth Metal Films

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory's CNM Nanophotonics Group have measured how light emission from individual colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, is modified when in proximity to ...



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