Here are the answers to our cryptic quantum-physics word search, created by Ian Randall. If you want to give it a go, don’t look down – click here.
Answers
Wave range? A plum tide at sea (9) [AMPLITUDE]
Sequence of hobo sonata carries force (5) [BOSON]
Yell out “circle” immediately? Overpowered freezer (8) [CRYOSTAT]
Nineties served up “greatest physicist” candidate (8) [EINSTEIN]
Devotion to closeness (8) [FIDELITY]
Hubbub after unwanted disturbances (5) [NOISE]
Line, we heard, for bishop with computers? A quantum of quantum (5) [QUBIT]
Inky creature is sensitive about fields (5) [SQUID]
Ill gent, nun in a bad way? It’s barrier breaking (10) [TUNNELLING]
Single cat is smallest matter (4) [ATOM]
Odd chart reveals quantum victim, potentially (3) [CAT]
Policeman finds right account for electron equation chap (5) [DIRAC]
Power to get-up-and-go (6) [ENERGY]
Physicist namesake for fictional meth lord? Cooking begins here (10) [HEISENBERG]
Nobel winner recited isometric exercise (6) [PLANCK]
Australian quantum physicist brings short model to space mountain (7) [SIMMONS]
Situation report, clearly (5) [STATE]
Danish physicist sounds like a pig (4) [BOHR]
Run out after firm hand? Result of quantum measurement (8) [COLLAPSE]
Gee, it’s neat! Uncertain, when some things are predictable (10) [EIGENSTATE]
Iron soldier charged? Obeys exclusion principle (7) [FERMION]
Mr Munster gets a bearing on often overlooked German quantum pioneer (7) [HERMANN]
Take his head! Queen killed dispatcher for sending secret messages (3) [QKD]
Rushes backwards in pirouette (4) [SPIN]
Creamy pus? Doctor to have the upper hand (9) [SUPREMACY]
And the hidden phrase: “This year is the centenary of the first prediction of Bose-Einstein condensates”