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Simplicity to manage complexity

Source: China Post, Nov 14 2012, 1:10am CST

Traveling to Traverse City by Lake Michigan in the U.S. in cold, rainy October, serendipity struck in funny ways. In a bookshop next door to the renovated Art Deco State Theatre movie-house run by film director Michael Moore, I picked up a 2010 book by ...

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Spin Zone: Physicists Get 1st Look at Strange Quantum Magnetism

Source: LiveScience.com  |   May 24 2013, 8:58am CDT

Illustration of ultracold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice potential. The atoms tended to tunnel into wells with others that had opposite spins. After a while, a line of atoms spontaneously organized itself, ...

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The first quantum entanglement of photons through space and time

Source: Extreme Tech  |   May 24 2013, 6:30am CDT

As for how the Israelis entangled two photons that never coexist, the technique is rather complex. They start by producing two photons (1 ...

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Top 10 Most Difficult Subjects To Understand

Source: Top 10 List   |   May 23 2013, 11:05pm CDT

Although the learning process has been a hot topic of various sciences, including neuroscience, psychology, pedagogy and the learning theory, the truth is that humankind has yet to discover the full array of factors involved. For the time being, learnin ...

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A quantum simulator for magnetic materials

Source: PhysOrg.com  |   May 23 2013, 1:12pm CDT

Physicists understand perfectly well why a fridge magnet sticks to certain metallic surfaces. But there are more exotic forms of magnetism whose properties remain unclear, despite decades of intense research. An impo ...

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Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist at the Same Time

Source: 3 Quarks Daily  |   May 23 2013, 9:33am CDT

Now they're just messing with us. Physicists have long known that quantum mechanics allows for a subtle connection between quantum particles called entanglement, in which measuring one particle can instantly set the otherwise unce ...

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Roll over Einstein: meet Weinstein

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 23 2013, 8:19am CDT

There are a lot of open questions in modern physics. Most of the universe is missing, for example. The atoms we know about account for less than 5% of the mass of the observable universe - the rest is dark matter (around 25% of the mass of the universe) ...

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Decision Theories

Source: Wall Street Journal  |   May 22 2013, 3:16pm CDT

I began to dislike Rolf Dobelli on page 23 of his new book, where he describes "the" confirmation bias, our tendency to seek support for our assumptions rather than the truth. "No professionals suffer more from the confirmation ...

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An Unheralded Breakthrough: The Rosetta Stone of Mathematics

Source: Hacker News  |   May 22 2013, 8:09am CDT

Commentary invited by editors of Scientific American The editors of Scientific American regularly encounter perspectives on science and technology that we believe our readers would find thought-provoking, fascinating, debatable and challenging. The ...

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Quantum Information Delay Scheme Using Orthogonal Product States

Source: BNET  |   May 21 2013, 12:29pm CDT

In this paper, the authors provide a quantum information delay scheme using orthogonal product states. By sharing orthogonal product states one person can give the other person some information which cannot be ...

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Math Trek: One of the most abstract fields in math finds application in the 'real' world

Source: Science News  |   May 20 2013, 9:12am CDT

Every pure mathematician has experienced that awkward moment when asked, “So what’s your research good for?” There are standard responses: a proud “Nothing!”; an explanation that mathematical research is an art form like, say, Olympic gymnastics ( ...

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