Physics News Alert

This is my first blog post with nothing to do about soccer! Tonight, when my dad was reading the Democrat and Chronicle, and I was doing my Calculus homework, he read me a blurb about an American and French Physicist who just won a Nobel Prize in Physics. The paper didn't explain much of anything in terms of what these physicists did to merit the prestigious award. I think the brief description was because the physicists, Serge Haroche and David Wineland, studied quantum physics and applications between quantum physics and computers. I do not think many people would actually understand what these men did if the newspaper went into further depth into their research/studies. I tried to understand the breakthroughs these men made in the physics world. So, I looked them up online and found this website, http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410825,00.asp. I learned that they separately studied interactions between light and matter. In particular, Wineland's work made strides toward the first "quantum computer," which would run much faster than a normal, digital computer. Wineland and his research team also created a clock that is one hundred times more precise than the most precise clocks we use today for the standard of our measurement of time. Wow.