Possible Failure Point Emerges in Miami Building Collapse
Some engineers looking at the failure of a 13-story condo tower in Florida said the collapse appeared to have begun somewhere near the bottom of the building.
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Video annotated by The New York Times describes the stages of a deadly building collapse in Surfside, Fla., on Thursday. The video, which captures the southern side of the building, appears to be a recording of a screen playing the surveillance footage.CreditCredit.Erin Schaff/The New York Times
June 27, 2021Updated 9:10 p.m. ET
The investigation into what may be the deadliest accidental building collapse in American history has just begun, but experts who have examined video footage of the disaster outside Miami are focusing on a spot in the lowest part of the condominium complex possibly in or below the underground parking garage where an initial failure could have set off a structural avalanche.
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These Drums Beat in Perfect Synchrony Because They re Quantumly Entangled
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Entanglement causes two separated objects to behave as though they are connected, illustrated here as two conga drums twisted around each other. However, as the researchers measure each drum’s position, they appear to act independently shown here as the two drums’ separated shadows. To confirm the drums are entangled, the researchers must measure the drum position many times and examine the statistics.
Illustration: J. Bertram/NIST
Physicists have built two tiny drums, each as large as a human hair is wide, and synchronized their vibrations exactly. They achieved this perfect unison of drums using a quantum mechanics phenomenon known as entanglement and the drums could be useful for developing quantum computers.