Microsoft may have finally made quantum computing useful
Microsoft and Quantinuum say they've developed the most error-free quantum computing system yet.
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French noble, Georges-Louis Leclerc who one hundred years before Darwin had similar ideas about evolution of organisms.
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Remember Wallace, of the famous line, came up with similar concepts of evolution independently during Darwin's later life. Ideas arise in the milieu of the times and clearly evolution time had come. A similar thing happened with atoms, the wonderfully named Democritus of Abdera proposed the concept of atoms in classical times, but it was only centuries later the ideas caught on. There was also Xenocrates the Strange, who proposed Quarks......
The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change
Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals
Remember Wallace, of the famous line, came up with similar concepts of evolution independently during Darwin's later life. Ideas arise in the milieu of the times and clearly evolution time had come. A similar thing happened with atoms, the wonderfully named Democritus of Abdera proposed the concept of atoms in classical times, but it was only centuries later the ideas caught on. There was also Xenocrates the Strange, who proposed Quarks......
Peter Higgs just died at a ripe old age of 94. Perhaps one of the best known particle physicists because he proposed a havy boun as the mediator of mass, 40+ years after his insight it was found by CERN with the large hadron collider. A triumph for the Standard Model of particle physics.
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It also lead to the discovery of the 5th force, no not it's not love, rather it's called the Yukawa coupling. This “fifth force” of nature complement the gravitational force, the electromagnetic force, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force. Below is a text book description, which I can't say I really understand.
Yukawa interaction is used to describe the nuclear force between a proton or a neutron, mediated by pions (which are pseudoscalar mesons). A Yukawa interaction is also used in the Standard Model to describe the coupling between the Higgs field and massless quark and lepton fields (i.e., the fundamental fermion particles). Through spontaneous symmetry breaking, these fermions acquire a mass proportional to the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field.
Peter Higgs was one of the greats of particle physics. He transformed what we know about the building blocks of the universe
During a walk in the Scottish Highlands, one of the greats of particle physics had the idea of a lifetime
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It also lead to the discovery of the 5th force, no not it's not love, rather it's called the Yukawa coupling. This “fifth force” of nature complement the gravitational force, the electromagnetic force, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force. Below is a text book description, which I can't say I really understand.
Yukawa interaction is used to describe the nuclear force between a proton or a neutron, mediated by pions (which are pseudoscalar mesons). A Yukawa interaction is also used in the Standard Model to describe the coupling between the Higgs field and massless quark and lepton fields (i.e., the fundamental fermion particles). Through spontaneous symmetry breaking, these fermions acquire a mass proportional to the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field.
More about the struggles of physicists and the 'Standard Model', the article goes through most of the reasons the standard model appears incomplete or incorrect.
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The big idea: are we about to discover a new force of nature?
The wealth of emerging evidence suggest that physics may be on the brink of something big
Enough noise has been made to make the he SA government review it's terrible plans for the SA museum.
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Hopefully it will change it's plans and allow continued access to researchers which it has been recently denying.
I have no problem with increased public engagement and the adventure park concept, I think it's great. But not at the cost of denying researchers access to the collection. That is criminal.
South Australian Museum boss welcomes review into restructure, floats room for compromise
The head of the South Australian Museum has acknowledged his proposed restructure of the institution will likely change following a government review.
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Hopefully it will change it's plans and allow continued access to researchers which it has been recently denying.
I have no problem with increased public engagement and the adventure park concept, I think it's great. But not at the cost of denying researchers access to the collection. That is criminal.
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At that point you might as well pack it up and send it to a museum that can give access.Enough noise has been made to make the he SA government review it's terrible plans for the SA museum.
South Australian Museum boss welcomes review into restructure, floats room for compromise
The head of the South Australian Museum has acknowledged his proposed restructure of the institution will likely change following a government review.
Hopefully it will change it's plans and allow continued access to researchers which it has been recently denying.
I have no problem with increased public engagement and the adventure park concept, I think it's great. But not at the cost of denying researchers access to the collection. That is criminal.
This is really exciting, personalised mRNA vaccines for melanoma entering phase III trials. In the earlier phase II trials the vaccines dramatically reduced the risk of melanoma recurrence. A sample of melanoma is taken and an mRNA vaccine tailored to stimulate an immune response against the tumour. Brilliant. Melanoma is one of the the odd tumours that would sometimes would go into spontaneous remission, this is thought to be immunological.
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After I read it I, thought about a friend of mine who died of Melenoma in his early 40's. There was more melanoma than 'him' left when he died, his liver was the size of a car fridge. It was awful.
I also thought about those poor thought disordered antivaxxers. Will they accept this evil, DNA destroying (in their minds) mRNA vaccine to save their lives or their children's lives? Some folks are going to face some interesting conundrums if this proves to be an effective treatment.
‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled
Excitement among patients and researchers as custom-built jabs enter phase 3 trial
After I read it I, thought about a friend of mine who died of Melenoma in his early 40's. There was more melanoma than 'him' left when he died, his liver was the size of a car fridge. It was awful.
I also thought about those poor thought disordered antivaxxers. Will they accept this evil, DNA destroying (in their minds) mRNA vaccine to save their lives or their children's lives? Some folks are going to face some interesting conundrums if this proves to be an effective treatment.
Let the cat out of the bag (box)! The famous Schrödinger's cat paradox might have been solved. Italian physicist, Matteo Carlesso and his team have tweaked the Schrödinger's equation and perhaps found an explanation why macroscopic objects don't show the same 'quantum uncertainty' as tiny, fundamental particles do.
In their tweaked version of quantum physics, the researchers eliminated the distinction between objects subject to measurement and measuring devices. Instead, they proposed that each system's state undergoes spontaneous collapse at regular intervals, leading to the acquisition of definite values for some of their attributes.
For large systems, spontaneous collapse occurs frequently, rendering them classical in appearance. Subatomic objects interacting with these systems become part of them, leading to rapid collapse of their state and the acquisition of definite coordinates, akin to measurement.
"With no action from external entities, any system localizes (or collapses) spontaneously in a particular state. In place of having a cat being dead AND alive, one finds it dead OR alive," Carlesso said.
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This is all theoretical and will need some difficult experiments to see if their is evidence to support this.
For the scholars the original article is here https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP02(2024)193
In their tweaked version of quantum physics, the researchers eliminated the distinction between objects subject to measurement and measuring devices. Instead, they proposed that each system's state undergoes spontaneous collapse at regular intervals, leading to the acquisition of definite values for some of their attributes.
For large systems, spontaneous collapse occurs frequently, rendering them classical in appearance. Subatomic objects interacting with these systems become part of them, leading to rapid collapse of their state and the acquisition of definite coordinates, akin to measurement.
"With no action from external entities, any system localizes (or collapses) spontaneously in a particular state. In place of having a cat being dead AND alive, one finds it dead OR alive," Carlesso said.
Tweak to Schrödinger's cat equation could unite Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, study hints
Physicists have proposed modifications to the infamous Schrödinger's cat paradox that could help explain why quantum particles can exist in more than one state simultaneously, while large objects (like the universe) seemingly cannot.
This is all theoretical and will need some difficult experiments to see if their is evidence to support this.
For the scholars the original article is here https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP02(2024)193
