Odds & Ends

 

Credit: SciTechDaily.com.

Physicists Harness 13,000 Entangled Spins To Unlock the Power of the “Dark State”

"Quantum dots just became serious contenders for quantum networks. By stabilizing nuclear spins into a robust quantum register, researchers have cleared a major hurdle toward scalable quantum communication and computing."

- Via SciTechDaily.com.

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Digital image, 2006, DS.

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Added note (2/16/2025): I neglected to mention it, but I heard about Enigma from an unusual source. Recently, PBS, the public broadcasting television station here in the States, broadcast its first NOVA episode devoted to UFOs. See it here.

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Cassiopeia A Light Echoes

"Even as a star dies, its light endures—echoing across the cosmos."