Will a Dutch discovery lead to understanding dark matter and a real quantum computer? UPDATE APR 17
UPDATE APR 17, 2012: “One, however, has to be cautious because while this experiment from Delft has provided the likely necessary evidence for the existence of the Majorana, the sufficient conditions are more difficult to achieve and may take more time.” — Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland (press release). Also see: “Zero bias conductance peak in Majorana [...]
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How to see quantum images and survive (I hope)
Physicists have designed several wild experiments to see if humans can see quantum images. The latest, just described in the Physics arXiv Blog: Geraldo Barbosa at Northwestern University plans to use a laser beam shaped into an image, such as the letter A. This laser beam hits a non-linear crystal, generating entangled pairs of photons that retain this [...]
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teleXLR8 returns, featuring quantum physicist Gildert on ‘Hack the Multiverse!’
This exciting news just in from Giulio Prisco: “teleXLR8 is reopening on Sunday 21 10 a.m. PST with a talk by [experimental quantum physicist/programmer] Suzanne Gildert on Hack the Multiverse!.” The teleXLR8 online talk program is “a telepresence community for cultural acceleration,” as their blog puts it. Translation: an audiovideo seminar — think TED in [...]
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Schrödinger’s cat
Noted physicists Schrödinger and Heisenberg are driving around in a car, and Heisenberg says,”I think we just ran over a cat.” “Is it dead?” asks Schrödinger. “I can’t be certain,” says Heisenberg. Heisenberg and Schrödinger are driving in a car and they get pulled over. The police officer asks, “Do you know how fast you [...]
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Thinking about the hardware of thinking: Can disruptive technologies help us achieve uploading?
As we begin to run larger and more brain-like emulations, will our current methods of simulating neural networks, using general-purpose silicon processors, be enough, even in principle? As we wish to run computations faster and more efficiently, we might we need to consider if the design of the hardware that we all take for granted [...]
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