The biggest scientific breakthrough in 2010

The first quantum machine in the world - the device that operates under the rules of world domination within the atom - was voted Science's biggest scientific breakthrough in 2010.

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The Daily Mail reported that Science - one of the world's leading scientific research papers recently published the list of the most important scientific achievements in 2010, including advances in HIV prevention, artificial genome, Neanderthal genome mapping, . The first quantum machine invention in the world was voted the biggest scientific breakthrough of the year.

A patent product of American scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara , the quantum machine consists of a small, invisible metal paddle with the naked eye and dances to a quantum rhythm.

After cooling the metal paddle to the lowest possible energy state, the researchers sought to bring it into a completely quantum mechanical state of motion. This means that metal paddles move in strange, unprecedented ways in the " macro " world of classical mechanics. For example, the device can be in two states at the same time - called " overlap " - to oscillate a little while shaking a lot at the same time.

According to the Science magazine editorial, the team's achievements led by two physicists Andrew Cleland and John Martinis deserve the most impressive scientific breakthrough of 2010 because " scientists for the first time has demonstrated quantum effects in the motion of a man-made object ".

" In terms of concept, this is great because it expands quantum mechanics to a whole new realm. In terms of practice, it opens up a range of different possibilities, from new experiments, create quantum control of light, current and motion, to experiments on the limits of quantum mechanics and our sense of future reality ".