Physics and Astronomy News Archive: May 2011

Speeding swarms of sensor robots
Source: MIT Posted: 5/8/11
A new algorithm ensures that robotic environmental sensors will be able to focus on areas of interest without giving other areas short shrift.

'The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it probably doesn't exist. And that closes us off to an enormous amount of phenomena that we may not be able to measure because they only happened once. For example, the Big Bang. ... That's one reason why they scoffed at higher dimensions for so many years. Now we realize that there's no alternative... '

Michio Kaku
(1947-)