IGN - Video Game Reviews, News & Previews. Physics.org. A Digital Copy of the Universe, Encrypted. Even as he installed the landmark camera that would capture the first convincing evidence of dark energy in the 1990s, Tony Tyson, an experimental cosmologist now at the University of California, Davis, knew it could be better.
The camera’s power lay in its ability to collect more data than any other. But digital image sensors and computer processors were progressing so rapidly that the amount of data they could collect and store would soon be limited only by the size of the telescopes delivering light to them, and those were growing too. Confident that engineering trends would hold, Tyson envisioned a telescope project on a truly grand scale, one that could survey hundreds of attributes of billions of cosmological objects as they changed over time.
It would record, Tyson said, “a digital, color movie of the universe.” The LSST epitomizes the new era of big data in physics and astronomy. Quantum Computing Moves Big Step Closer To Reality As Scientists Teleport Data Across Chip. Quantum mechanics allows for some very strange things, like the teleportation of information and computers that can break even the toughest codes.
Recently, scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich made a step toward building a working quantum computer by teleporting bits of information across a computer chip. The results of the study were detailed Aug. 15 in the journal Nature. Creating such a circuit is an important milestone, said Benjamin Schumacher, a professor of physics at Kenyon College in Ohio. Quantum Physics.