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"In the Name of the King is neither good nor bad, and yet it is both at once. In the Name of the King is the Schrodinger's Cat of garbage movies; until watched, it remains in a state of quantum superposition, and then when it is watched, the waveform coll
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This is a little far-fetched even by the standards of SF mcguffins...
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"[T]he level could measure gravitational acceleration to about one part in 10 billion. While this is on par with existing schemes to test gravity such as the torsion pendulum, the BEC level could reach this precision on length scales as small as a microme
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