(Reuters) -
A French and an American scientist won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday
for finding ways to measure quantum particles without destroying them, which
could make it possible to build a new kind of computer far more powerful than
any seen before.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Expanding horizons
Oct 4th 2011, 12:39 by G.C.
The
Economist
2012
Physics Nobel Prize
THIS year's
Nobel prize for physics was awarded for what was, in a sense literally, the
biggest discovery ever made in physics—that the universe is not only expanding
(which had been known since the 1920s), but that the rate of expansion is
increasing. Something, in other words, is actively pushing it apart.
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