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Pic A Day – March 5th 2009
In which I play with magnets
Pic A Day – March 5th 2009 is part of a series
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In which I talk about time standards and leap seconds
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 [...]
Also posted in Cryptography, Geeky, Modern Cryptography, Science Tagged Cryptography, Light, Modern Cryptography, Physics, Polarisation Comments closed
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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