http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727721.200-rethinking-einstein-the-end-of-spacetime.html Physicists struggling to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics have hailed a theory – inspired by pencil lead – that could make it all very simple

IT WAS a speech that changed the way we think of space and time. The year was 1908, and the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski had been trying to make sense of Albert Einstein's hot new idea - what we now know as special relativity - describing how things shrink as they move faster and time becomes distorted. "Henceforth space by itself and time by itself are doomed to fade into the mere… ]]> Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:25:00 -0700 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727721.200-rethinking-einstein-the-end-of-spacetime.html http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100317/full/news.2010.130.html A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving.

Andrew Cleland at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his team cooled a tiny metal paddle until it reached its quantum mechanical 'ground state' — the lowest-energy state permitted by quantum mechanics. They then used the weird rules of quantum mechanics to simultaneously set the paddle moving while leaving it standing still. The experiment shows that the principles of quantum mechanics can apply to everyday objects as… ]]> Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:51:00 -0700 http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100317/full/news.2010.130.html http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/01/hadron-collider-201001?printable=true ]]> Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:54:00 -0700 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/01/hadron-collider-201001?printable=true