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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
March 2010
Saswato R. Das |
Scientists Solve Mystery of Superinsulators The opposite of superconductivity might lead to strange new circuits |
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
August 2006
Alexander Hellemans |
The Geometer of Particle Physics Alain Connes's noncommutative geometry offers an alternative to string theory. In fact, being directly testable, it may be better than string theory. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
World's Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock 'God Particle' The energy released by the Large Hadron Collider could at last nail down that holy grail of contemporary physics, the Higgs boson, and may even finally unveil the secret of dark matter. |
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 |
Wired
January 2005
Duff McDonald |
The BlackBerry Brain Trust First Mike Lazaridis reinvented the way we get email. Now he's rounded up a bunch of radical thinkers to reinvent physics itself at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. |
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... |
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. |
| AskMen.com |
It's Turtles All The Way Down The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang -- a success that kick-started a multi-billion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began. |
Scientific American
March 2009
Davide Castelvecchi |
Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles A novel way to rummage for particles in accelerator debris |
Outside
May 2008
Evan Ratliff |
Has A Surfer/Snowboarder Who Lives In A Van Rewritten Physics? Maybe. Garrett Lisi opted not to go into academia following his PhD in physics. Instead, he opts to work on his unifying theory for the universe after he hits the waves or slopes. |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2008
Erik Sofge |
5 Things You Need to Know About the Large Hadron Collider Now Black holes won't eat anyone alive, particles won't be discovered and, most important, the action will happen off-camera. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
JR Minkel |
A Smashing Bad Time For the United States "In decay" might well describe the state of experimental particle physics in the United States, if the country doesn't make a strong push in coming years to host the world's next big particle smasher. |
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... |
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? |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
August 7, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Large Hadron Collider Turns on Sept. 10, Tests Beam on Weekend This weekend, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will perform preliminary tests in the Large Hadron Collider's "big ring" in anticipation of a Sept. 10 start date. |
Scientific American
April 2006 |
The Collider Calamity While the Europeans and Japanese build new particle accelerators, the U.S. is poised to shut down its premier colliders at Fermilab and SLAC over the next few years. |
Technology Research News
March 12, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Quantum chips advance Researchers have entangled a pair of electronic qubits in an integrated circuit. The work is a milestone on the road to chip-based, mind-bogglingly fast quantum computers. |
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 |
Technology Research News
February 12, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Teleportation goes the distance Teleportation makes it possible to transmit the quantum states, or structural information, of photons from one place to another. And making photons from one location materialize at another without traveling the distance between opens the way for sending messages long distances. |
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 |
Technology Research News
May 21, 2003 |
Big qubits linked over distance Researchers working on quantum computing managed to entangle a pair of large quantum bits that were spaced nearly a millimeter apart. |
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 |
AskMen.com
July 3, 2012
Dave Golokhov |
Higgs Boson Scientists may have made a miraculous discovery of something we've been in search of for a generation. No, it's not Waldo, Paris Hilton's soul or who shot Tupac. |
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. |
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. |
Fast Company
May 2008
Theunis Bates |
Primer: The Big-Bang Machine The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will power up later this summer and start smashing particles together to try to understand the beginnings of the universe. |
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. |
Technology Research News
April 21, 2004 |
Photons Teleported Six Kilometers Real-life teleportation will never come close to the teleportation of fiction, but instantly sending single quantum particles like photons from one place to another has been proved possible in laboratory experiments and promises to extend the reach of quantum cryptography, which offers potentially perfect security. |
Technology Research News
August 25, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Five Photons Linked Researchers have entangled five photons - a key step in quantum computing which would make it possible to check computations for errors and teleport quantum information within and between computers. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2008
Philip Taylor |
Inside LHC Launch Party, Not End of World & Scientists Feel Fine Some 400 physicists, engineers and students just finished camping out here at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory through the night, awaiting the birth of an extreme machine so powerful that it could soon reveal what lent mass to the universe in the first place. |
Wired
August 18, 2008
John Pavlus |
Ace Quantum Mechanics--the Reality TV Way! With the announcement of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, quantum physics is becoming a conversation topic at parties. Here is your guide to understanding the terms. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2011
Joel E. Moore |
Topological Insulators Quantum magic can make strange but useful semiconductors that are insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface |
Technology Research News
January 1, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Electron pairs power quantum plan Researchers from HP Laboratories and Qinetiq plc in England have mapped out a way to manipulate a pair of very cold electrons that could eventually lead to practical quantum computers made from quantum dots, or tiny specks of the type of semiconductor material used in electronics. |
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 |
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
January 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Does Dark Matter Encircle Earth? Dark matter might exert measurable effects on the earth, moon and gas giants |
CIO
March 15, 2002
John Edwards |
Quantum Leap A quantum physics breakthrough could turn pipe dreams, such as ultra-high-speed quantum computers and teleportation, into real-world technologies... |
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
March 2008
Saswato R. Das |
Physicists Make Artificial Black Hole Using Optical Fiber Scientists in Scotland say they have created a black hole's event horizon using laser pulses and microstructured optical fiber. |
Technology Research News
September 22, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Bank Transfer Demos Quantum Crypto As quantum cryptography nears practical application, researchers are working on the next generation of the technology, which includes the weird quantum phenomenon of entanglement. |
Science News
May 26, 2001 |
Cosmic Numerology Some history of scientists' attraction to special numbers and mathematic simplicity in physics and astronomy. |
