One would emphasize that recent Landscape trouble has emphasized the problems of string theory. Before 2005 there was a tendency to believe that string theory was a “fantastic approach,” and it never was a serious candidate as a theory of quantum gravity.

String theory always was in trouble but in the past, the debate and the [...]

I’ve enjoyed Spudis’s view of things for several years now; he spoke eloquently during the Aldridge Commission hearings shortly after the “new vision” was announced. I had the chance to meet him in 2002 (as I recall) while he was still in Houston; he took me down to the library and showed me some of [...]

The material, developed by ApNano, utilizes a different type of nano-material. A typical discussion about nano-technology deals with carbon-based buckyballs/nanotubes[?], both of which are made from carbon atoms. The researchers at ApNano have discovered other, inorganic materials that can be formed into nanospheres (buckyballs) or nanotubes. The resulting material, dubbed inorganic fullerene-like nanostructures—or IF for [...]

The mechanism transfers a single qubit of quantum state information from a group of atoms to a photon. The photon can be transmitted over a distance, and the quantum information subsequently restored to a different set of atoms. This ability is crucial to both secure quantum communication and quantum computing, and it represents a significant [...]