{"id":1037,"date":"2007-01-17T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T10:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/17\/physics-news-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2007-01-17T10:12:58","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T10:12:58","slug":"physics-news-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/17\/physics-news-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics News of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-8b51d976bb10e151da81b2feec4e7a05-sm_PhotonicCat.jpg\" alt=\"i-8b51d976bb10e151da81b2feec4e7a05-sm_PhotonicCat.jpg\" \/>A couple of quick stories off Physics Web:<\/p>\n<p>First, they have a short article about a <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/articles\/news\/11\/1\/11\/1?rss=2.0\">record-breaking cat state<\/a>. This is a state in which a group of researchers have maneged to &#8220;entangle&#8221; six photons so that they are either all polarized vertically, or all polarized horizontally. This breaks the previous record of five entangled photons, and is interesting mostly because it&#8217;s getting to the system size where you can start thinking about using these entangled photons to transmit quantum information and do quantum error correction.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a lovely &#8220;artist&#8217;s conception&#8221; picture, reproduced at left, of, um&#8230; pink photons connected by springs, flying through the Matrix. I&#8217;m not sure what that is, actually, but it&#8217;s artistic and conceptual.<\/p>\n<p>The other news story of the day is a short article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/articles\/news\/11\/1\/12\/1?rss=2.0\">University of Washington gravity measurements<\/a>   that we <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/extra_dimensions_get_smaller.php\">discussed earlier<\/a>. There&#8217;s a little more discussion of how the measurement limits interesting cosmological quantities, and some quotes from the experimenters.<\/p>\n<p>This also comes with a <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/articles\/news\/11\/1\/12\/1\/torsion\">nice picture<\/a>, but it doesn&#8217;t scale down well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of quick stories off Physics Web: First, they have a short article about a record-breaking cat state. This is a state in which a group of researchers have maneged to &#8220;entangle&#8221; six photons so that they are either all polarized vertically, or all polarized horizontally. This breaks the previous record of five entangled&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/17\/physics-news-of-the-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physics News of the Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}