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Superposition, Entanglement, and Raising Schrödinger's Cat
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-10-21)
Research on precise control of quantum systems occurs in many laboratories throughout the wor1d, for fundamental research, new measurement techniques, and more recently for quantum information processing. I will briefly ...
How the Planck Constant is Better than a Kilogram Artifact, or How the History of Measuring Physics Constants Will Lead to a “New” International System of Metric Units
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-09-30)
For over 200 years, the metric system has been the standard for comparing measurements in science and industry. Formal procedures were adopted about 125 years ago to create the International System (SI) of units, and it ...
Baby Galaxies: The First Steps toward the Milky Way
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-11-18)
Our Milky Way is a beautiful spiral galaxy and has been constantly growing since the beginning of time. How did the ancestors of the Milky Way form and look in the first billion years of the universe? Before galaxies form, ...
Pattern Formation in Nature: Why is the Universe not Boring?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-02-04)
The universe is not a rigid clockwork, but neither is it formless and random. Instead, it is filled with highly organized, evolved structures that have somehow emerged
from the simple rules of physics. Many natural systems ...
Cosmic Rays: Alien Invaders from Outer Space
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-12-02)
Cosmic rays are microscopic, charged particles that permanently bombard Earth from outer space. 100 years after their discovery their origin is still a mystery. It is also not clear how cosmic rays can obtain energies that ...