I had a great week at UC Berkeley this week. I've been finishing my long-term research, and it was beautiful with the cherry blossoms in full bloom. During this visit, I spent some time in the physics building where Ernest O. Lawrence invented a new type of particle accelerator along with the first successful cyclotron with M. Stanley Livingston. This was also the same physics department where J. Robert Oppenheimer was a professor of physics from 1929 to 1943 before leaving for Los Alamos in New Mexico, where he helped develop the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project.

In 1935, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Melba Phillips completed the first prediction of Quantum Tunneling. Quantum Tunneling is a phenomenon in quantum physics where an atom or a subatomic particle can travel to the opposite side of a barrier that should be impossible for the particle to penetrate. As a result, quantum tunneling allows quantum computers to perform tasks faster than classical computers. It was amazing to be in the building where these brilliant minds' work laid the foundation for modern-day nuclear medicine and forged us forward in Quantum Computing.

Visiting the campus is always an absolute pleasure, and I look forward to returning in a couple of months.