A team of scientists in China has linked quantum memories over more than 30 miles (50 kilometers) of fiber optic cable, beating the previous record by more…… Read more “Physicists link quantum memories across the longest distance ever | Live Science”
Tag: Space
String Theory | Number Theory | What Is String Theory
Scientists have found what they say is a link between complex number theory and string theory: a specific kind of elliptic curve from a torus. … specifically…… Read more “String Theory | Number Theory | What Is String Theory”
The Permanence of You
Remember, every moment of your life that every decision you make, every instance of your existence, is forever etched into the time-space continuum. You exist as long…… Read more “The Permanence of You”
Earth’s Got a New, Tiny Moon | RealClearScience
The Minor Planet Centre has just announced that the Earth has been orbited by a second moon for the past three years or so. But while excitement…… Read more “Earth’s Got a New, Tiny Moon | RealClearScience”
Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab | Quanta Magazine
As experimental proposals go, this one certainly doesn’t lack ambition. First, take a black hole. Now make a second black hole that is quantum entangled with it,…… Read more “Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab | Quanta Magazine”
What if Earth were a super-Earth? | Live Science
It’s possible that Earth and the other inner planets of our solar system were headed in that direction, Mickey Rosenthal, a doctoral candidate studying planet formation at…… Read more “What if Earth were a super-Earth? | Live Science”
From Big Bang to cosmic bounce: an astronomical journey through space and time
Brian Greene’s Until the End of Time sits within a tradition of grand, synoptic visions of the Universe, rooted in physics, that feels (to this British reader)…… Read more “From Big Bang to cosmic bounce: an astronomical journey through space and time”
How the Cold War Created Astrobiology – Issue 10: Mergers & Acquisitions – Nautilus
Astronomy and biology have been circling each other with timid infatuation since the first time a human thought about the possibility of other worlds and other suns.…… Read more “How the Cold War Created Astrobiology – Issue 10: Mergers & Acquisitions – Nautilus”
When the Earth Had Two Moons – Issue 13: Symmetry – Nautilus
For more than half a century, the moon had been mocking the best minds in science, and for Erik Asphaug enough was enough. The taunting… — Read…… Read more “When the Earth Had Two Moons – Issue 13: Symmetry – Nautilus”
Earth on Nautilus: The Moon Is Full of Money
Alfred, Lord Tennyson had some thoughts on buying and selling in outer space. As he saw it, when “the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails…… Read more “Earth on Nautilus: The Moon Is Full of Money”
