Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Nobel prize for physics


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/science/french-and-us-scientists-win-nobel-physics-prize.html?ref=world
*A lot of the information in my review doesn’t come from the article but instead what i happened to know about science.

I enjoy topics about science like this, but every time that I read an article like this, I don’t enjoy the dumbed down language they use, like “atoms are not like you and me”, “magic computing power” or “individual nuggets of nature”. I think the topics in the article could be a lot more interesting if they actually discussed them in depth and explained what they meant. Anyhow, I think Schrodinger's cat and quantum hyper states are so cool! I think anyone would find it fascinating how, at any time, part of your body might be in Detroit, or that everything in life is made out of the “up”, “down”, “strange”, “charm”,”top”,”bottom” quarks (not including leptons and bosons. It is impossible to imagine the scale of these things though. For example, in any given glass of water anywhere in the earth right now, there are probably electrons that were once part of Einstein.

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