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Reason
March 2007
Kenneth Silber |
No Small Matter Is theoretical physics stuck? And should you worry? Book Review: The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, by Lee Smolin.   |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Stephen Cass |
Thread-Bare Theories An interview with string-theory critic Lee Smolin about the challenges facing physics. |
Wired
September 2006
Adam Rogers |
Physics Wars String theory was supposed to reconcile the subatomic world with the vast reaches of spacetime. Now Lee Smolin wants to unravel it. |
Scientific American
September 2006
George Johnson |
The Inelegant Universe Two new books argue that it is time for string theory to give way: The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin... Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit... |
Science News
July 18, 2009
Paul Fendley |
Five Problems In Physics Without The Definite Article Most physicists don't consider a phenomenon to be understood until there are both repeatable experiments displaying it and a quantitative theoretical description. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Lauren Aaronson |
Q&A With: Mike Lazaridis The co-founder of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion talks about the company's R&D efforts, market expansion, and future directions. This interview was conducted prior to the recent patent settlement between RIM and NTP. |
Wired
December 2002
Kevin Kelly |
God Is the Machine Digital physics suggests that those strange and insubstantial quantum wavicles, along with everything else in the universe, are themselves made of nothing but 1s and 0s. The physical world itself is digital. |
Scientific American
October 2008
Michelle Press |
Reviews: Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique Review of The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory and Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Michael Scott Moore |
"The Hole in the Universe" by K.C. Cole An engaging new book explores the riddles of space, from string theory to the possibility that the universe is a holographic projection... |
Salon.com
July 6, 2000
John Farrell |
Did Einstein cheat? Is the great physicist's most famous theory a crock? Members of the anti-relativity underground think so. |
National Defense
March 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Researchers Cast Wary Eye On Atomic-Level Computing Experts point out that quantum computers could execute calculations several millions of times faster than conventional systems, but that the technology still is years away from becoming truly functional. |
Popular Mechanics
May 30, 2008
Richard Muller |
Physicist: Einstein Would Approve of Moving the Island on Lost How did Ben make the island "disappear" in last night's season finale? It's all relativity, argues a top professor who even uses Lost in his classes. |
Smithsonian
June 2005
Richard Panek |
The Year of Albert Einstein His dizzying discoveries in 1905 would forever change our understanding of the universe. Amid all the centennial hoopla, the trick is to separate the man from the math. |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004 |
RIM's Lazaridis: "We're Not a Startup" An interview with Mike Lazaridis, founder of Research in Motion Ltd, maker of the RIM Blackberry. |
BusinessWeek
March 15, 2004
John Carey |
Physics: "Putting The Weirdness To Work" Scientists say quantum materials will be the basis for amazing devices, but when? |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Michael Brooks |
Quantum Cash and the End of Counterfeiting Physicists say they can make money that can't be copied -- at least in theory |
Scientific American
August 2007
JR Minkel |
The Gedanken Experimenter In putting teleportation, entanglement and other quantum oddities to the test, physicist Anton Zeilinger hopes to find out just how unreal quantum reality can get. |
Wired
Brian Greene |
Questions, Not Answers, Make Science the Ultimate Adventure Science is about immersing ourselves in piercing uncertainty while struggling with the deepest of mysteries. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2008
Joshua J. Romero |
Physicist Named MacArthur Fellow for Work on Quantum Computing Alexei Kitaev's theoretical studies may lead the way to quantum computers that catch their own errors |
Popular Mechanics
November 25, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Questions for the Author of The Physics of Superheroes James Kakalios, a physics professor, has written a new book that uses comic book superheroes to explain physics principles. |
National Defense
May 2012
Eric Beidel |
Air Force Seeks Impossible-to-Intercept Communications The Air Force has enlisted a group of researchers to create quantum memories based on the interaction between light and matter that would result in a new form of encryption that some experts have called "perfect." |
Technology Research News
January 14, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Quantum dice debut Researchers have overcome a major obstacle to generating random numbers on quantum computers by limiting the possibilities in the otherwise unlimited randomness of a set of quantum particles. |
Scientific American
April 2006
Jim Holt |
Beyond the Standard Model Book Reviews: Warped Passages: Unraveling The Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall... The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design by Leonard Susskind... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Mark Anderson |
String Theory Made Easy Two books tackle one of the most complex theories known to man with surprisingly satisfactory results |
Chemistry World
November 18, 2014
Philip Ball |
The quantum moment: how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty This book explores the cultural reception of quantum physics since its earliest days, when Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and others grappled with the bizarre findings of their research, telling them how the world is structured. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Saswato R. Das |
A Crowd of Quantum Entanglements Phosphorus-in-silicon system could lead to quantum computers |
Science News
August 6, 2005 |
From the August 3, 1935, issue Zeppelin Models Whirled at 200 Miles Per Hour in Tests... Prof. Bohr Opposes Einstein in Quantum Theory Controversy... |
Science News
October 10, 2008
Tom Siegfried |
Book Review: The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking To Make The World Safe For Quantum Mechanics By Leonard Susskind The deepest issues are treated conversationally and accessibly, recounting efforts to persuade the physics community to appreciate the crisis that Stephen Hawking's work on black holes created. |
Reason
April 2002
Gregory Benford |
Leaping the Abyss Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe... |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Saswato R. Das |
Quantum Cryptography Cracked? Swedes find vulnerability in supposedly secure quantum cryptography system. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2007
Stick et al. |
The Trap Technique In this first part of a two-part series, the authors discuss how today's computers are running out of room for classical physics to work and how working with the quantum nature of things instead of against it will open up vast new frontiers for computing. |
Industrial Physicist
Apr/May 2003
Jennifer Oullette |
Switching from physics to biology Physicists in transition help shape biological theory. |
Technology Research News
December 11, 2002
Eric Smalley |
Design links quantum bits Realizing the potential of phenomenally fast quantum computers means having to link thousands of quantum bits, which are the transistors of such computers. So far researchers have been able to connect only a few. A scheme for linking many tiny superconducting loops may pull it all together. |
Chemistry World
June 27, 2012
Caryl Richards |
Theory of quantum optical devices Semiconductor Quantum Optics by Mackillo Kira and Stephan Koch is an extremely detailed description that rapidly builds on the fundamental concepts to the more esoteric light - -matter phenomena in low-dimensional semiconductors. |
Chemistry World
April 29, 2013
Philip Ball |
Quantum leaps of faith There's no reason to suppose that the way quantum mechanics was discovered is the most logical or obvious means to comprehend its conceptual foundations. In some recent re-evaluations of quantum theory, the 'quantum' becomes almost incidental. |
Industrial Physicist
Sina Kniseley |
Societies The American Association of Physics Teachers' mission is to enhance the appreciation and understanding of physics through teaching, and its members want to help others understand physics and the benefits that a physics background offers. |
Science News
February 15, 2003 |
TimeLine: February 11, 1933 Yellow sodium light effective outdoors... Tuning in on atomic hearts makes their breaking easier... Einstein develops quantum mechanics in latest paper |
Chemistry World
February 22, 2015
Matt Gunther |
Einstein was right! In his new book, Einstein was right!, Karl Hess attempts to understand Einstein's motivations for criticizing quantum theory and how, in the end, he was right to do so. |
Wired
September 2001
Mark K. Anderson |
Liquid Logic Say good-bye to the either-or binary digit. Quantum computing is riding a new wave of supercool subatomic bits that can be both 1 and 0 at once... |
Technology Research News
January 29, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Quantum computers go digital One of the challenges of building a quantum computer is reducing errors. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison have eased the problem with a method that reduces error rates by two orders of magnitude. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2010
Erico Guizzo |
Loser: D-Wave Does Not Quantum Compute D-Wave Systems' quantum computers look to be bigger, costlier, and slower than conventional ones |
Scientific American
October 17, 2005
Graham P. Collins |
Quantum Bug Physicists must overcome a fundamental obstacle before quantum computers can become a practical reality: decoherence, which is the loss of the very quantum properties that such computers would rely on. |
Science News
July 16, 2005 |
From the July 13, 1935, Issue Soundproofing Gives Wall Look of Underground Cave... Professor Albert Einstein Announces a New Theory... Expansion of Universe Sole Explanation of Red Shift... |
Popular Mechanics
February 11, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Could Someone Really Teleport Out of Jail?: Fringe Fact vs. Fiction In last night's episode of Fringe, "Ability," a man teleports out of prison. Scientists offer insight on how close this is to reality. |
National Defense
April 2011
Eric Beidel |
Pentagon Wants Off-the-Charts Computing Speeds The Defense Department awarded researchers based at the University of Pittsburgh a five-year, $7.5 million grant to build the foundation for a quantum supercomputer, a machine that can harness more power than all of the world's current computers combined. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Mark Anderson |
Quantum Weirdness: Two Times Zero Doesn't Always Equal Zero Researchers think they can extract quantum information from two noisy channels that are individually useless |
Popular Mechanics
December 3, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Fringe Pushes Probability to the Limit as Characters Walk Through Walls Fringe loves to toe the line between science fact and fiction, but this time its tilted far over onto the fiction side. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2009
Saswato Das |
Ion Teleportation Scheme Could Scale Up Quantum Computers Scientists have teleported the quantum state of one trapped ion onto another a meter away |
Technology Research News
August 13, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Quantum computer keeps it simple Controlling fleeting quantum particles usually requires making extraordinarily precise devices. A proposal that calls for chaperoning pairs of particles and getting all of the particles in a quantum computer to sing the same tune could ease this burden. |
Chemistry World
September 3, 2014
Philip Ball |
Does life play dice? Those two attention-grabbers, physics and biology, are appropriating what essentially belongs to chemistry. All of the facets of quantum biology that are so far reasonably established, or at least well grounded in experiment and theory, are chemical ones. |
