Spooky Action at a Distance? Not a Chance!:

Quantum mechanics has a way of taking your mind to places it just doesn’t want to go. Famously hard to understand and impossible to intuit, concepts such as quantum entanglement and superposition really make sense only when viewed through a mathematical lens. Plain language most often leads you down dead ends or false paths that end miles away from reality, with carelessly chosen words propagating misunderstandings at the speed of the internet. Read the full article in Real Clear Science. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) issues this weekly compilation of news stories for the week of April 11.

Science: 

Curiosity Rover ChemCam Engineering Team awarded Explorers Club Citation of Merit:

The Curiosity Rover ChemCam Engineering Team was awarded the Citation of Merit by the Explorers Club, a society that promotes exploration and scientific field study. The team was nominated for their hard work to recover the use of the ChemCam laser on Mars after the high-voltage power supply started behaving off-nominally in 2021. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL

History:

70 years of electronic computing:

Seventy years ago this spring, the first fully electronic computer at what is today Los Alamos National Laboratory came online. Called the MANIAC, it was constructed when electronic computing and its associated industry were still in their infancy. Early computer centers like Los Alamos had to build their own systems and invent the methods for using them. This pioneering effort gave Los Alamos and the few places like it an outsized influence on the emerging electronic computing field, shaping the computing technologies and methods we experience today. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL