Best of Last Week – quantum pigeonholing, a hoverbike drone project and the sun goes quiet
Monday, July 28, 2014 - 05:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —Midsummer has found the physics community in a contemplative if not esoteric mood as Physicists discuss quantum pigeonhole principle—if you take three pigeons and put them in two holes, then you're going to wind up with two birds sharing one hole, no matter how you try to arrange things. But an international panel of scientists describes a scenario where putting three quantum particles in two quantum boxes does not always result in two particles sharing one box. Also, another university professor has found that a Law of physics governs airplane evolution—he claims a law of physics he came up with ten years ago, describes not only natural evolutionary processes, but those of the evolution of technology, such as aircraft design.