After their recent pioneering experiments to couple light and matter to an extreme degree, Rice University scientists decided to look for a similar effect in matter alone. Rice physicist Junichiro Kono, graduate student Xinwei Li and their international colleagues have discovered the first example of Dicke cooperativity in a matter-matter system, a result reported in Science. The discovery could help advance the understanding of spintronics and quantum magnetism, Kono said. [1] In the beginning there was nothing. And then came Logos. Creating chaos. Ordering it into matter. Matter which expanded everywhere. Consuming everything in its path. And at the end, even our soul will be reduced to particles. Not because it has anything to do with them but because we believe it does. The universe will fade away. Not because of the stars dying, but because of our souls fading away into oblivion. At the end, Nothing. And then, will come Logos…
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