From the beautiful science accessible to all Even if it is not biology this year, the theme of this conference is exciting, and speakers of a very high level! In general, conferences are available on video after the fact from the website
the early 20th century, a revolution comparable in scope to discover the universal laws of mechanics and gravitation by Newton three centuries earlier shakes physics.
A new description of the world is obvious: our universe is not static and fixed but subject to randomly traversed by incessant waves of matter. This vision is so radical that it offends intuition and gives rise to fierce debates, pushing Albert Einstein, one of the major players in this new situation, to assert that "God does not play dice."
Despite the intense debates that led to its inception, quantum mechanics has quickly proven to be an extremely effective tool to understand and predict a host of new phenomena. Its success was such that it is quickly out of research labs to enter the field of everyday life. For example, it allowed us to understand why some materials are insulators, while other drivers and has made possible the discovery of transistors, which are the foundation of modern electronics. It helped to understand why some superconducting materials had the surprising property of carry current without loss, paving the way for advancements in medical imaging in the field of energy. Other consequences of this theory led to the realization of atomic clocks so precise that they will not earn any more than fifteen seconds of error since the beginning of the universe, and have resulted design and implementation of GPS positioning system satellite. After a century of existence, at dawn the 21st century, quantum mechanics has not lost its power to surprise. They are now the least intuitive aspects that are the subject of ongoing research. Spectacular applications thereunder, as the teleportation of particles of light or the possibility, predicted by the great physicist Richard Feynman, to realize one day computers are different from those we know today, and revolutionary machines capable of handling huge number of parallel operations. This symposium Wright will give us the opportunity and the chance to explore, along with five very large international specialists in this field, some of the fascinating aspects of quantum mechanics. We'll see how effective quantum physics is able to describe our world, and will also address the question of its limits when it is confronted with the infinitely small, especially in experiments conducted at CERN, and the infinitely large interstellar space. We'll see how quantum mechanics has already profoundly changed our lives every day, and how new areas such as quantum information or quantum computers are likely to fundamentally change our lives tomorrow. adventure Quantum has just begun! Monday, November 15 2010 - 18:30
Jochen Mannhart
Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism,University of Augsburg, Germany
QUANTUM PHYSICS TO THE SCALE OF DAILY
- Wolfgang Ketterle Nobel Laureate 2001 (Physics), Department of Physics,
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA WHEN THE COLD COLD ENOUGH IS GLACIAL
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