You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology micro-summaries for October 10, 2019
I agree. It was hard enough for me to get used to the idea of superpositioning at the particle level. At this size, it's just astounding.
Before now, the largest objects in a super-position that I was aware of were:
I knew about Bucky Balls, but I didn't remember the 2011 story. Bit of trivia. I recognized a name in that 2011 article from the link in #3. It looks like Markus Arndt was involved in all three efforts. He was the first author in 1999/Bucky Balls, and final author in the last two studies. There were a couple of other authors that were also involved in the last two (Marcel Mayor and Stefan Gerlich), but Arndt seems to be the only one in all three. Probably not suprising, but it looks like this work is all coming out of one lab.
This sounds like a long-term research effort of his team ^^
I agree. And I'm interested to see what they accomplish next. Looks like the overall tempo for advances in this area is somewhere around once per decade. It may be accelerating, but I guess we've still got a while to wait for the next one.