Pues parece que por fin lo han conseguido: teletransportación cuántica con átomos.
Physicists in Austria and the US have independently demonstrated quantum teleportation with atoms for the first time. Until now, teleportation had only ever been observed with photons. The results could represent a major step towards building a large-scale quantum computer.
Pues no va y resulta que los pulpos prefieren uno de sus ocho brazos. Imagino que así no se hacen un lío.
Most octopuses have a favourite arm, zoologists have discovered. This is the first time they have been found to show any bias when choosing which of their eight limbs is right for the job.
De The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow’s Science de Marcus Chown.
New ideas are the stuff of science. Without a constant supply of them -clay pigeons catapulted into the blue sky to be shot down- science would be impossible. As the cosmology consultant of New Scientist, I often come across ideas that blow my mind, that leave my head spinning with their far-reaching ramifications. Such as the notion that time could actually run backward; or that there might exist multiple realities playing out all possible histories; or that our universe may have been created as an experiment by superior beings in another universe.
Invariably, such ideas are attempts to answer the big questions in science. What is time? What is reality? Are we alone in the cosmos? Where did the universe come from? Like nothing else, these questions expose the limits of out current knowledge, highlighting the key issues with which scientists at the frontier are wrestling.
Luego sigue comentando algunas de esas ideas «locas» sobre el universo, el origen de la vida y la naturaleza del tiempo. Algunas son realmente ingeniosas y darías para varias historias de ciencia ficción. Ahora que estoy considerando volver a escribir algún cuento, quizá éste sea el libro adecuado para mí.
Se acerca mi cumpleaños, y por esas maravillas de las compras por internet, empiezan a caer los regalos. Hoy me ha llegado todo un paquete de libros:
The Universe Next Door de Marcus Chown
Language Myths de Laurie Bauer y Peter Trudgill
A Shortcut Through Time de George Johnson
What Evolution Is de Ernst Mayr
The Federalist Papers de Hamilton, Madison y Jay
The Origins of Life de John Maynard Smith y Eörs Szathmáry
Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs de Carl Zimmer
Ilium de Dan Simmons
Todo ensayo menos Ilium, una novela de ciencia ficción de la que me hablaron tan bien que tuve que pedirla.
Lo bueno, o lo malo, es que The Pila ha crecido apenas nada.
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