Where Was The Big Bang? nyt HS:n elokuvatoimittaja Pertti Avola valitsi kuusi romanttisinta Suomi-filmiä. 1. Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta (1938) Johannes Linnankosken klassikkoromaani on filmattu usein, mutta Teuvo Tulion 1930-lukuinen versio on niistä paras. Tarina tukkilais-Olavin ( Kaarlo Oksanen ) rakkauksista ja lopullisesta kesyyntymisestä perheenisäksi hehkuu kesää ja intohimoja, etenkin alkupuolellaan kun Olavi pääsee piikatyttö Gasellin ( Nora Mäkinen ) aittaan. Regina Linnanheimo ja Tauno Palo riutuvat rakkaudessa Kaivopuiston kauniissa Reginassa. 2. Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi riutuvat Kaivopuiston Reginan tapaan. 3. IS arkisto Tauno Palo ja Helena Kara ja Valkoiset ruusut. 4. 5. Zade Rosenthal / handout André Wilms ja Kati Outinen sinnittivelevät Le Havressa. 6.
What Is the Higgs? - Interactive Graphic Imagine never having seen a snowflake. Now prove one exists by probing the slush and mist of melting snow. You can’t see a Higgs boson, and no sensor can pick one out from the Higgs field that it forms. For 50 years, physicists have been building larger and more powerful accelerators to vaporize particles and sift through the debris. In the tunnels at CERN, protons are sped along a track to within a breath of the speed of light, then smashed together in a violent explosion. The protons annihilate each other, releasing a burst of energy. But Einstein tells us that mass is energy, and physics tells us that energy can’t be destroyed. An array of new particles pours from the fireball, energy spun back into tiny specks of mass. A machine surrounds and tracks the debris, bending charged particles as they plow through layers of sensors. Repeat this a million times, then tens of millions, before a second has passed. And keep going because you’re looking for something very rare. Once every few billion impacts,
TWAN project official website A stunning collection of nightscape photos (night sky above landscape) are selected as the winners and honorable mention photos of the 5th International Earth & Sky Photo Contest. The contest was open to anyone of any age, anywhere in the world; to both professional and amateur/hobby photographers. With a significant increase to the last year contest over 1000 entries were received and 80% of them were approved for the contest judging. David Malin, a prominent member of the judging panel and a world-known pioneer in scientific astrophotography explained that "This competition encourages photographers with imagination to push their cameras to their technical limits, and to produce eye-catching images that appear perfectly natural and are aesthetically pleasing. Hundreds of nightscape photographers from across the world rose to the challenge, and the panel of nine judges was ultimately faced with finding the best from almost 800 images."
Quantum Computers Animated My Galaxies The Astounding Link Between the P≠NP Problem and the Quantum Nature of Universe — The Physics arXiv Blog The paradox of Schrodinger’s cat is a thought experiment dreamed up to explore one of the great mysteries of quantum mechanics—why we don’t see its strange and puzzling behaviour in the macroscopic world. The paradox is simple to state. It involves a cat, a flask of poison and a source of radiation; all contained within a sealed box. The paradox comes about because the radioactive decay is a quantum process and so in a superposition of states until observed. But that means the cat must also be in a superposition of alive and dead states until the box is open and the system is observed. Nobody knows why we don’t observe these kinds of strange superpositions in the macroscopic world. But that mystery may now be solved thanks to the extraordinary work of Arkady Bolotin at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. First some background. In principle, it ought to be possible to use Schrödinger’s equation to describe any object regardless of its size, perhaps even the universe itself.
Celebrating five years of Oxford Bibliographies The librarians at Bates College first became interested in Oxford Bibliographies a little over five years ago. We believed there was great promise for a new resource OUP was developing, in which scholars around the world would be contributing their expertise by selecting citations, commenting on them, and placing them in context for end users. It would be an innovative approach for finding authoritative and trusted sources, and one that was likely to work well in an online environment. In the summer of 2010, our research librarians agreed that they would really like to see how we might make use of Oxford Bibliographies at our undergraduate liberal arts institution. Along with other libraries, we were able to offer our ideas in the early months when a core list of subject modules was already in place, with additional ones being worked on in the wings. The platform and resource itself evolved rapidly. Why has this resource worked for our college?
Schrödinger's microbe: physicists plan to put living organism in two places at once | Science Physicists have drawn up plans to put a living organism in two places at once in a radical demonstration of quantum theory. The scientists aim to suspend a common microbe in an uncertain state similar to that endured by Schrödinger’s cat, which is portrayed in the Nobel laureate’s famous thought experiment as dead and alive at the same time. But instead of harnessing the bizarre laws of the quantum world to hold a hapless bacterium in limbo, the uncertainty will centre on the bug’s geographical whereabouts. “It is cool to put an organism in two different locations at the same time,” Tongcang Li of Purdue University, Indiana, told the Guardian. “In many fairy tales, a fairy could be at two different locations or change locations instantly. The rules of quantum mechanics allow for objects to be in a “superposition” of two different states at once. Erwin Schrödinger, one of the founding fathers of quantum theory, proposed his thought experiment in 1935.
150917160200 Invisibility cloaks are a staple of science fiction and fantasy, from Star Trek to Harry Potter, but don't exist in real life, or do they? Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have devised an ultra-thin invisibility "skin" cloak that can conform to the shape of an object and conceal it from detection with visible light. Although this cloak is only microscopic in size, the principles behind the technology should enable it to be scaled-up to conceal macroscopic items as well. Working with brick-like blocks of gold nanoantennas, the Berkeley researchers fashioned a "skin cloak" barely 80 nanometers in thickness, that was wrapped around a three-dimensional object about the size of a few biological cells and arbitrarily shaped with multiple bumps and dents. Zhang, who holds the Ernest S. Zhang, who holds the Ernest S.
Here's why our most irrational decisions could be a result of quantum theory New research looking at the relationship between human decision-making and mathematics has turned up a surprising finding: our most irrational choices might be explained by the theories of quantum mechanics. The idea is that the choices we face are all co-existing at the same time, until we make a decision - at that point all other possibilities disappear from our minds. "Our beliefs don't jump from state to state: instead we experience a feeling of ambiguity about all of the states simultaneously," one of the researchers, Zheng Joyce Wang from Ohio State University, told The Independent. When we're faced with a choice, she says, quantum theory enables our minds to shift between each option in a state of indecision until the exact moment that we make a decision. "We have accumulated so many paradoxical findings in the field of cognition, and especially in decision-making," explains Wang in a press release. “Our brain can’t store everything.
Nano-trapped molecules are potential path to quantum devices Single atoms or molecules imprisoned by laser light in a doughnut-shaped metal cage could unlock the key to advanced storage devices, computers and high-resolution instruments. In a paper published in Physical Review A, a team composed of Ali Passian of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Marouane Salhi and George Siopsis of the University of Tennessee describes conceptually how physicists may be able to exploit a molecule's energy to advance a number of fields. "A single molecule has many degrees of freedom, or ways of expressing its energy and dynamics, including vibrations, rotations and translations," Passian said. "For years, physicists have searched for ways to take advantage of these molecular states, including how they could be used in high-precision instruments or as an information storage device for applications such as quantum computing." Explore further: Standoff sensing enters new realm with dual-laser technique