A sail formed not of material, but
by electric fields reaching a diameter of 40 kilometers could tap the solar wind and propel the fastest man - made object ever
Not exact matches
Aharonov, now at Chapman with Tollaksen, was renowned for having codiscovered a bizarre quantum mechanical effect in which particles can be affected
by electric and magnetic
fields, even in regions where those
fields should have no
reach.
Qubits in silicon systems interact through
electric fields, and Morello's team shows that it is possible to extend their
reach by pulling the electron further away from the nucleus of each atom.