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...such cold temperatures the atoms’ motions are virtually halted, and they begin to behave more like waves than particles. Featured in the Feb. 8 issue of Nature, the study showed that once a laser pulse is shot into one sodium cloud—known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—it is signficantly compressed and deccelerated. “The light pulse is slowed from 186,000 miles per second to 15 miles per hour, and is also spatially compressed from 1 kilometer to less than half the width of a hair...

Author: By Lawrence R. Valverde, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Profs Perform Atomical ‘Magic’ | 2/12/2007 | See Source »

...David Cameron: Even if I were a cross between Einstein, Wittgenstein and Mother Theresa, they'd probably still have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q & A with David Cameron: Why Britain Needs a 'Compassionate Conservative' | 1/24/2007 | See Source »

...varying degrees, all the robots on display imitate the look and behavior of living creatures, a form of engineering known as biomimicry. A robot designed by David Hanson, president and director of Dallas-based Hanson Robotics, to look like Albert Einstein can hold a plausible conversation (it understands 130,000 words) accompanied by convincing hand gestures. Its subtle facial expressions are facilitated by Frubber, a patented polymer that simulates facial skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robots are Coming | 1/23/2007 | See Source »

...seven-dimensional space and perhaps can't intuitively grasp why neural information processing observed from the outside should give rise to subjective experience on the inside. This is where I place my bet, though I admit that the theory could be demolished when an unborn genius--a Darwin or Einstein of consciousness--comes up with a flabbergasting new idea that suddenly makes it all clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: The Mystery of Consciousness | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...Your selection reflects the reality that more than ever people are not merely observers but participants in a world that we are creating. It's a good time to recall Albert Einstein's words: "The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." David Alex Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

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