"Schrödinger’s Cat" is back

[DrLeftover]

Canadian researchers have succeeded in side-stepping an obstacle of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, a strange law of the quantum world that says precise measurement is impossible, because the act of measuring changes what you are trying to measure.



Their experiment in an Ottawa lab — in which they measured the polarization states of single light particles, called photons — is seen as a small step toward a quantum computer, a major goal of modern science.



“These results are the first direct measurements that are applicable to qubits — the fundamental unit of quantum information,” the authors write in Nature Photonics.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/0...ers-cat-and-a-step-toward-a-quantum-computer/

 

[Evil Eye]

With more weird stuff to boot.

 

[DrLeftover]

You gotta love it.

 

[Evil Eye]

Oh yes, but I wouldn't want to study physics.