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Comment Not exactly... (Score 1) 387

This is a crisis of high energy physics, not physics in general. For example, condensed matter physics is doing just fine on both the theory and experimental side.
And by the way, we also have cool particles: Cooper pairs, Dirac fermions, (probably) Majorana fermions. Just to name a few :)

-- Sincerely, condensed matter physicist :)

Comment Interrupt requests (Score 2) 309

My peak productivity is roughly from 5 PM to 8 PM. It has nothing to do with my mental state or caffeine intake. It is simplt because that is the time when I can concentrate on my work without being interrupted almost continuously by emails, telephone calls, my boss, my coworkers etc.

Submission + - One-time pad from Caltech offers uncrackable cryptography (technologyreview.com)

zrbyte writes: One-time pads are the holy grail of cryptography — they are impossible to crack, even in principle. However, the ability to copy electronic code makes one-time pads vulnerable to hackers. Now engineers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, have found a way round this to create a system of cryptography that is invulnerable to electronic attack. Their solution is based on a special kind of one-time pad that generates a random key through the complexity of its physical structure, namely shining a light through a diffusive glass plate.

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