The 1st Quantum Machine! The Most Significant Scientific Advance of 2010

The 1st Quantum Machine! The Most Significant Scientific Advance of 2010: "The theory that all human-made objects have moved according to the laws of classical mechanics. was blown asunder by a group of researchers who designed a gadget that moves in ways that can only be described by quantum mechanics -- the subversive set of rules that governs the behavior of tiny things like molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles. Physicists Andrew Cleland and John Martinis from the University of California at Santa Barbara and their colleagues designed the machine—a tiny metal paddle of semiconductor, visible to the naked eye—and coaxed it into dancing with a quantum groove. The machine proved that the principles of quantum mechanics can apply to the motion of macroscopic objects, as well as atomic and subatomic particles."