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...high school. “The truth of the matter is, it’s third-grade math,” Butler says. “The kids might think I’m really smart, but it’s simple. I’m not talking quantum physics here...
That’s right. Many an undergraduate in need of a valence review for quantum mechanics has turned to the pop princess’ online study aid: Britney Spears’ Guide to Semiconductor Physics (http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm). The website, which was written and designed by Carl Hepburn, a post-graduate physics major at the University of Essex, UK, has been around for two years, since Hepburn celebrated his admiration by placing the famous pop star amidst descriptions of valence and conduction bands...
...nanometers and to the new tools, such as Veeco Instruments' atomic-force microscopes and Nanometrics' inspection tools for semiconductor makers, that allow the tiny parts and particles to be observed and manipulated. It is a mysterious realm in which the laws of classical physics yield to those of quantum mechanics, in which the powerful bonds between atoms overtake the effects of gravity that rule the big world. Yet scientists have moved beyond the basic exploration of nanotech to its exploitation. The National Science Foundation foresees a $1 trillion market by 2015 for nano products, and businesses and governments around...
...three-decade marriage to the President. Of the pair, he has always been the political animal. He persuaded a reluctant Megawati to enter politics in the first place, and wielded a powerful voice in the councils of her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle. But it is typical of the quantum leap his stature and influence have taken since Megawati became President a year ago that, though he is only an ordinary M.P., the President's husband is now "de facto chairman" of the party, says senior M.P. Haryanto Taslam. Controlling the largest party in the country's legislature has given...
...physics, a quantum leap means jumping to a higher level without ever stopping--indeed, without even traveling through--anywhere in between. In our ordinary understanding of things, that is impossible. In sports, it defines greatness...