Will the Real Schrodinger’s Cat Please Stand Up
The story of Schrodinger’s cat is well known, and one of quantum theory’s most popular phrases on the world stage. You can find his cat on t-shirts, bumper stickers, internet memes and the like....
View ArticleArchimedes Would Have Known Better If He Could Count To A Million
Today is March 14th, or Pi Day because 3.14 is March 14th rendered in month.day date format. A very slightly better way to celebrate the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter is July 22nd,...
View ArticleSchrödinger Quantum Percolator Makes Half Decent Coffee
I couldn’t decide between normal and decaffeinated coffee. So to eliminate delays in my morning routine, and decision fatigue, I’ve designed the Schrödinger Quantum Percolator — making the state of my...
View ArticleWhere Do You Get Your Neutrons? Neutron Sources for Nuclear Fusion, Science,...
All of us probably know what neutrons are, or have at least heard of them back in physics class. Yet these little bundles of quarks are much more than just filler inside an atom’s nucleus. In addition...
View ArticleQuantum Computing And The End Of Encryption
Quantum computers stand a good chance of changing the face computing, and that goes double for encryption. For encryption methods that rely on the fact that brute-forcing the key takes too long with...
View ArticleHackaday Links: May 30, 2021
That collective “Phew!” you heard this week was probably everyone on the Mars Ingenuity helicopter team letting out a sigh of relief while watching telemetry from the sixth and somewhat shaky flight of...
View ArticleMeasuring Planck’s Constant with LEDs and a DMM
The remarkable thing about our universe is that it’s possible to explore at least some of its inner workings with very simple tools. Gravity is one example, to which [Galileo]’s inclined planes and...
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