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Category Archives: Physics
Pic A Day – March 5th 2009
In which I play with magnets
This post is part of a series of 31 posts which begins with Pic A Day - March 1st 2009, the latest post in the series is Pic A Day - March 31st 2009.
Quantum Cryptography (a background)
In this article I hope to illustrate some of the ideas behind the strange topic of Quantum Cryptography, though I won’t be discussing cryptography itself, that comes later – just the necessary physics.
First we must consider the nature of light (this can be generalised to any particle once we get all quantum mechanical, but let’s [...]
This post is part of a series of 47 posts which begins with The Caesar Shift, the latest post in the series is Letter Groups.
Also posted in Cryptography, Geeky, Modern Cryptography, Science Tagged Cryptography, Light, Modern Cryptography, Physics, Polarisation 2 Comments
Large Hadron Collider
The LHC at Cern will be switched on today, though there won’t be collisions for a little while.
The LHC will collide Hadrons (obviously) at high speeds. Hadrons are particles which contain quarks. Everyday examples are Protons and Neutrons. The LHC can only accelerate charged particles and so it’ll collide protons. The high energy collisions will [...]
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