A chip containing tiny mechanical resonators. If cooled down, the resonators are shown to be in a quantum-mechanical ground state, which opens the door for quantum control of mechanical systems!
Photo by Erik Lucero. Paper published in Nature, April 2010.
One of the attractions about using clones is that it makes people ask immediately, What does it mean to be a human being?
- Kazuo Ishiguro (via theparisreview)