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Quantum computer as detector shows space is not squeezed


January 28, 2015

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Ever since Albert Einstein proposed his special theory of relativity in 1905, physics and cosmology have been based on the assumption that space looks the same in all directions--that it's not squeezed in one direction relative to another. A new experiment by the University of California, Berkeley, physicists used partially entangled atoms--identical to the qubits in a quantum computer--to demonstrate more precisely than ever before that this is true: To one part in a billion.Full Story

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