Day: October 29, 2015

‘Zeno effect’ verified, Heisenberg uncertainty principle controlled: Atoms won’t move while you watch

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The researchers observed the atoms under a microscope by illuminating them with a separate imaging laser. A light microscope can’t see individual atoms, but the imaging laser causes them to fluoresce, and the microscope captured the flashes of light. When the imaging laser was off, or turned on only dimly, the atoms tunneled freely. But Read more about ‘Zeno effect’ verified, Heisenberg uncertainty principle controlled: Atoms won’t move while you watch[…]

Mimic, the Evil Script That Will Drive Programmers To Insanity

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Mimic implements a devilishly sick idea floated on Twitter by Peter Ritchie: “Replace a semicolon (;) with a Greek question mark (;) in your friend’s C# code and watch them pull their hair out over the syntax error.” There are quite a few characters in the Unicode character set that look, to some extent or Read more about Mimic, the Evil Script That Will Drive Programmers To Insanity[…]

Galaxies formed just after Big Bang viewed

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the Universe. Some of these galaxies formed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and are fainter than any other galaxy yet uncovered by Hubble. The team has Read more about Galaxies formed just after Big Bang viewed[…]