As observed by the European Space Agency/NASA jointly owned spacecraft named the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), powerful starquakes are being set off across the Sun when great solar flares explode above its surface. Surface ripples that well up from the tempestuous and ever-oscillating stew of gas below the Sun’s surface have been studied by […]
Songkran Festival – The Thai New Year
Songkran Festival – The Thai New Year I like January because there is a continuation of another long New Year holiday after the end of the earlier long Christmas holiday. I also like February because there is a long Chinese New Year holiday and the sweet Valentine day. Then come April that I like […]
On the Long-awaited Cusp of a New Generation in Computing
In February of 2007, D-Wave Systems, of Burnaby, Canada, successfully demonstrated the world’s first quantum computer, to much fanfare. Known as Orion, this 16-qubit adiabatic quantum computer is designed to be scaled up to a 1024-qubit model by mid-2008 that can very quickly compute a very specific sort of problem using somewhat different properties of quantum […]