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Shoot neutrons through a liquid or solid, and these subatomic particles will bounce off the atoms inside. The angles at which the quantum bullets ricochet tell scientists how the target atoms are arranged. That knowledge has already led to advances in semiconductors and may someday explain the bizarre phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity. Clifford Shull, now retired from M.I.T., and Bertram Brockhouse from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, helped perfect neutron-scattering techniques in the 1940s and '50s. Today, nearly a half-century later, they have Nobels to show for it. Ironically, the man who did the pioneering work...
Certainly your understanding of quantum mechanics won't be affected by your religious or political views. But in so many subjects, from Government to English to Biology, professors will have the chance to pass off their own liberal opinions as fact, as part of the essential knowledge within a discipline...
While the followers of Pirsig dithered in the 1970s, Rogers headed straight to Wall Street, where he teamed up with George Soros at the Quantum Fund and turned a $600 investment into many millions. It bought him a limestone mansion on Riverside Drive that today is filled with spears, pelts and other tribal relics and resembles the lobby of an explorers' club...
...wasn't clear that there was any quantum-leap advantage to bringing Harvard in line with the rest of the world," Buell said...
...Quantum Leap: Meet the masters of the universe: they're geeks...