We're heading along to the movies to see the new Bond flick Quantum Of Solace in a day or three. The title started me thinking just how much solace a character such as the latter day dark, broody, and edgy 007 might actually expect to extract though. According to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, in his book Great Mythconceptions if it's a quantum it won't in fact be a whole ... Read full entry

Apparently "entangled light" was found to be travelling 10,000 times faster than the speed of light, the ultimate speed limit in the universe, in a recent Swiss experiment: The idea in the new experiment is that the photons in each entangled pair are hitting the distant detectors simultaneously, so there's no time for them to exchange a signal. By comparing results from the two detectors, the researchers determined whether ... Read full entry