September 27, 2021
MP3 FILE / 50 MINUTES / 60 MB
Breakthrough Prize winner Jun Ye talks optical lattice clocks; the thermodynamic cost of timekeeping with Marcus Huber; & microbead minimotors help John Bechhoefer investigate information processing in nanomachines and biological systems.
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Optical Lattice Clocks
MP3 FILE / 26 MINUTES / 60 MB
Jun Ye shares the $3-million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the development of the optical lattice clocks. He tells Zeeya how they work, and how they could be used to detect gravitational waves, identify dark matter, or predict seismic or volcanic activity.
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Thermodynamic Cost of Timekeeping
MP3 FILE / 16 MINUTES / 40 MB
Quantum physicist Marcus Huber describes his experiment demonstrating that increasing the accuracy of a timepiece has an entropic price, to Toby Fitzpatrick.
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Microbead Mini Motors
MP3 FILE / 9 MINUTES / 21 MB
John Bechhoefer is building nanomachines with glass beads to investigate how to make information processing more efficient--and to better understand biological processes--as he explains to Colin Stuart.
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