physics
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“As kids in school they were told this was a great national emergency, that we needed scientists,” Klaw heard from Victor Weisskopf, the chair of MIT’s physics department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
Quantum computers take advantage of unusual properties of quantum physics, including superposition, which allows quantum systems to exist in combinations of different states, and entanglement, which creates powerful connections between quantum states.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
In particle physics, scientists use a statistical measure called standard deviations to evaluate how likely an apparent signal is to result from random fluctuations rather than a genuine physical process.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2026
Quantum physics, however, allows matter to behave in ways that would be impossible under the familiar rules of everyday life.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
It would seem that these two theories could live in harmony together, each dictating the rules of physics for different aspects of the universe.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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