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Wizards exist in real life, beyond the films and books of Harry Potter. They cook willow bark extract in car battery acid and wood alcohol and convert it into a pleasant-smelling component of candy or of a rubbing compound. In their glassware, petroleum products turn into life-saving medicines. >
Bibliography of Quantum Cryptography
For ages, mathematicians have searched for a system that would allow two people to exchange messages in perfect privacy. Quantum Cryptography was born in the early seventies when Stephen Wiesner wrote "Conjugate Coding", which unfortunately took more than ten years to see the light of print [1]. In the mean time, Charles H.
Nuclear/Particle physics
At Fermilab, scientists work on particle physics science and technology that leads to a better understanding of the physics of the universe and practical benefits to society. Scientists wonder why the universe is expanding ever faster. What mysterious force is at work? By recording the light from hundreds of millions of galaxies, they hope to find out what's going on. The proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment will explore the transformations of the world's highest-intensity neutrino beam to find out what role neutrinos played in the evolution of the universe. Project X would allow for numerous experiments at the intensity frontier and would allow scientists to develop technologies for a future machine at the energy frontier.
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The Moebius Strip © Cie Gilles Jobin 2007 (Image: Dorothée Thébert) The first Collide@CERN-Geneva prize in Dance and Performance was today awarded by jury to the 47-year-old Swiss-born dancer and choreographer Gilles Jobin for his proposal to use interventions and dance to explore the relationship between mind and body at the world's largest particle physics laboratory. Grand opening today of CERN travelling exhibition 'Accelerating Science' in Ankara, Turkey: https://t.co/Olw3Hdg8 http://t.co/OdTJweHJ Mon 02 Apr
CERN
L’histoire de cette ampoule contenant du tritium s’est déroulée au Cern de Genève et au Laboratoire corpusculaire de Clermont-Ferrand (LPC Clermont) au cours de l’année 1968. Un chercheur clermontois raconte. La cible de tritium : sa naissance. « Cette ampoule a été conçue par Jean Faïn, du Laboratoire corpusculaire de Clermont-Ferrand, pour contenir du tritium, dans le cadre d’une série d’expériences de diffusions élastiques cohérentes de protons sur différents noyaux légers. Le cahier des charges imposait que les noyaux de tritium choqués par les protons incidents traversent une faible quantité de matière avant d’être détectés par des compteurs silicium. Un mécanicien du Cern a fabriqué plusieurs ampoules, un travail d’orfèvre.
Quantum Diaries
Steven Weinberg has a new article in The New York Review of Books on The Crisis of Big Science , which is based on a talk he gave this past January at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin (for some discussion of this, see here and here ). Weinberg is rather gloomy about prospects for particle physics, seeing dim prospects for a new generation of particle accelerators, especially in the US. He goes over the sorry story of the SSC, which he was deeply involved in, and worries that the same thing is happening to the James Webb Space Telescope project.
Not Even Wrong
A Quantum Diaries Survivor
Tommaso Dorigo I am an experimental particle physicist working with the CMS experiment at CERN and the CDF experiment at Fermilab. In my spare time I play chess, abuse the piano, and aim my dobson telescope at...
Beautiful Universe
Astronomy