Sixteen Golden Retrievers Explain Atoms

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A crack team of PhD-trained golden retrievers illustrate the structure of atoms -- the particles that make up everything around you. They also show how atoms are weirder than you might think.

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What's the application? Using lasers to reduce the speed of a sample of atoms, thereby reducing their temperature to a tiny fraction of a degree above absolute zero.
Last week, I wrote about ion traps as a possible quantum computing platform, which are probably the best established of the candidate technologies.
I announced my intention to do some research blogging a

Isn't "Can Be Wrong" sort of, like, the exactly wrong musical theme for a demonstration of quantum mechanics?

By Pierce R. Butler (not verified) on 16 Nov 2009 #permalink