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  01 Quantum entanglement: the 'spooky' science behind physics Nobel This year's physics Nobel prize was awarded Tuesday to three men for their work on a phenomenon called quantum entanglement, which is so bizarre and unlikely that Albert Einstein was sceptical, famously calling it "spooky". S So how exactly does it work? Even people with degrees in physics struggle to understand it -- and some who do still find parts "hard to swallow," said Chris Phillips, a physicist at Imperial College London. To explain the phenomenon he used the example of a photon -- "a single unit of light" -- though the theory is believed to hold true for other particles. If a photon is put through a "special crystal", it can be split into separate photons, he told AFP. "They're different colours from the one you started with," Phillips said, "but because they started from one photon, they are entangled". This is where it gets weird. If...

  01 Quantum entanglement theorists win Nobel Prize for loophole-busting experiments After awarding three climate change modelers with the physics prize last year, the Nobel Committee recognized another trio of theorists in the field this year. Earlier today, it announced John. F Clauser, Alain Aspect, and Anton Zeilinger as the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their independent contributions to understanding quantum entanglement. Quantum mechanics represents a relatively new arena of physics focused on the mysterious atomic and subatomic properties of particles. Much of the research dwells on individual conditions and reactions; however, some experts theorize that two or more, say, photons can share the same state while keeping their distance from each other. If so, an expert can analyze the first sample and assume what the second, third, or fourth ones might be like.  [Related: Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to scientist who sequenced the Neanderthal genome.] ...

  HOME ☰ 01 Three physicists win the Nobel for work on quantum entanglement © Provided by Inverse “Is nature a trickster?” On Tuesday, the Nobel Committee posed this question regarding what may be nature’s slightest sleight of hand: quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is an area of physics that deals with all things subatomic. This field throws a wrench into pre-existing classical physics, which gave us the Standard Model that explains three of the universe’s four forces and identifies all known subatomic particles. Quantum mechanics endeavors to predict where a particle will be at any given moment. Simple stuff. There’s one especially tricky aspect of quantum mechanics known as entanglement. This phenomenon occurs when two particles, even if they’re far from each other, act in unison. Effects on one particle will also impact its pair. Even though they’re separate, they operate as a single unit. Einstein described this behavior as “spooky action at a distance.” This year, Alain As...

  HUGE GLOBAL MEGA PROJECTS.... -  October 01, 2022   01 Faster trains will reduce travel time in Kerala: V Muraleedharan By Express News Service KOCHI: The Railways has initiated steps to reduce the travel time from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod to four hours and Kerala will have trains that can run at a speed of 160km per hour soon, said Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan in Kochi on Saturday. “The future of K-Rail semi-high speed rail project planned by Kerala government is uncertain. However, the railways has initiated steps to introduce faster rail traffic. The signalling system is being modernised for this purpose. The rail coach factory at Perambur in Tamil Nadu is manufacturing coaches that are faster, lighter and safer, he said while inaugurating a seminar on the Vision and Mission of Prime Minister Narendra Modi organised by the BJP at Bharat Hotel in Kochi. The country needs faster transportation system for development and the Union ...