MC 2: MC2 Post 1455 Experiments Challenge Fundamental Understanding of Electromagnetism

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

MC2 Post 1455 Experiments Challenge Fundamental Understanding of Electromagnetism

From: http://phys.org

(Phys.org)—A cornerstone of physics may require a rethink if findings at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are confirmed. Recent experiments suggest that the most rigorous predictions based on the fundamental theory of electromagnetism—one of the four fundamental forces in the universe, and harnessed in all electronic devices—may not accurately account for the behavior of atoms in exotic, highly charged states.

Link: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-fundamental-electromagnetism.html

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/d7feoyj

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BACKGROUND QED Story:

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Software for the discovery of new crystal structures

May 11, 2011

A new software called QED (Quantitative Electron Diffraction), which has been licensed by Max Planck Innovation, has now been released by HREM Research Inc., a Japan based company, which is developing products and services in the field of High-Resolution Electron Microscopy. QED allows transmission electron microscopes to acquire novel kinds of data, opening up new possibilities in electron crystallography.

Link: http://phys.org/news/2011-05-software-discovery-crystal.html#nRlv

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/c6o4p4z

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Wingman is Now Reading Kurzweil's Book.

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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 update of

Raymond Kurzweil's 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines and his 1990 book

The Age of Intelligent Machines. In it, as in the two previous versions, Kurzweil

attempts to give a glimpse of what awaits us in the near future. He proposes a

coming technological singularity, and how we would thus be able to augment our

bodies and minds with technology.

He describes the singularity as resulting from a combination of three important technologies of the 21st century: genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics (including artificial intelligence).

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/32z2fr

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Palm’s WebOS lives on…. as an Android App

Link: http://gigaom.com/mobile/palms-webos-lives-on-as-an-android-app/

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