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Originally posted by -= JR =-@Jan 16 2003, 01:42 PM
it wasnt an atom, it was a beam of light.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2049048.stm
this was all over the news when it happened. i think that these type of things are not really significant when people cannot relate to it, or when it has no clear application that will affect or more importantly, improve lives.
the details of this experiment is pretty much impossible to understand without a solid grasp of quantum physics.
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Four years ago, this was done with a single photon.
JR, your comment, "these type of things are not really significant when people cannot relate to it, or when it has no clear application that will affect or more importantly, improve lives." is so right on.
There are all kinds of amazing scientific research papers being published every year that won't appear in the newspapers or that do and no one cares. Science advances become known much faster when they are marketed well. Without someone taking the time to explain the papers in English, they do not become very well known. If a story is not picked up by the Associated Press or Reuters, it may sit dormant for years - or more likely forever. A good marketing scientist will tell a good story
What living scientists can most of us name? They are probably all best-selling science authors. Our personal lists of known scientists will not usually be of the best ones but rather they will be of the best science writers and the ones that know how to market themselves and are good at politics.