After Wheeler now Edward Lorenz–father of Chaos theory–died. He coined the term butterfly effect. While studying computer science in Linz I was very impressed by chaos theory and its implications.
Above you can see a strange attractor, the Lorenz attractor, which looks like a butterfly and were introduced by Lorenz in 1963.

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John Archibald Wheeler, the great physicist who coined the term “Black Hole”, died at 96 today.

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news @ nature.com – Quantum cryptography is hacked – Simulation proves it’s possible to eavesdrop on super-secure encrypted messages.
Quantum cryptography is hacked
- Simulation proves it’s possible to eavesdrop on super-secure encrypted messages.

Update: Zeilinger schreibt etwas dazu in seinem Blog. Recht viel schlauer macht mich das aber nicht und der Titel verspricht auch viel mehr [...]

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Anton Zeilinger, Austrian’s quantum physics pioneer, is blogging.
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I don’t know if the weather will be fine–the forecast says it will be cloudy–, but if you can catch a glimpse of the sun from 11:43 to 13:50 you can see a partial solar eclipse in Linz.

Here are the time periods of where and when you can be a part of this astronomical event [...]

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