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March 2010
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quantum information

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When it comes to the science of the very small, strange things start happening, and our intuition ceases to be a useful guide. Plus finds out about the crazy quantum world, and spin that a politician would die for.

Tags: Dirac's equation : quantum mechanics : electron spin : quantum superposition : quantum computing : quantum information


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Physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies has made an unusual move into the infant discipline of astrobiology. He tells Plus about his interest in the big questions: what is life, how would we recognise aliens - and are they all around us?

Tags: chirality : evolution : quantum information : origins of life : alien life : information : semantic information : natural selection