Category Archives: Quantum

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Posted on 5/8/2013 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

Walk up to a physicist at a party (we could add a conditional about the amount of beer consumed by the physicist at this point, but that would be redundant, it is a party after all), and say to him or … Continue reading →

Posted in Go Ahead, Waste Your Time, Off The Deep End, Physics, Quantum, The Loony Bin Called Academia | 3 Comments

El Naschie works on entanglement now

Posted on 4/24/2013 by sflammia

The Journal of Quantum Information Science will not be getting any of my papers starting today, because today is when I learned that they recently published the following gem: A Resolution of Cosmic Dark Energy via a Quantum Entanglement Relativity Theory, by … Continue reading →

Posted in Funny Ha Ha, Open Science, Physics Bastardizations, Quantum Basterdizations, Scientific Publishing | 10 Comments

Q-Tube

Posted on 4/11/2013 by sflammia

This is a rare gem: Four lectures on quantum mechanics by Paul Dirac… on YouTube! Here’s the first one. Also, the Q+ online lecture series continues to go strong, bringing in a steady stream of high-quality speakers. This month constitutes … Continue reading →

Posted in Quantum | 5 Comments

Reflections on the Discord Bubble

Posted on 4/8/2013 by sflammia

The following is a guest post by Marco Piani. A couple of months ago Steve wrote a post on “the discord bubble“. Let me try to provide a summary of his post and of his thoughts. There have been too … Continue reading →

Posted in Bubbles, Quantum, Quantum Computing | 4 Comments

Who should blog in 2013?

Posted on 1/9/2013 by sflammia

The quantum theory blogosphere has seen some great new additions this year: The Caltech IQIM blog, Quantum Frontiers Thomas Vidick, MyCQstate Miguel Navascues, Schoedinger’s Rat But this is not enough! Our researchers are legion. And so must it be with … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Quantum | 5 Comments

Cirac and Zoller win the Wolf Prize for physics

Posted on 1/2/2013 by sflammia

Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller were just announced as winners of the 2013 Wolf Prize for physics. I’m not sure if this is the official citation, but the Jerusalem Post is saying the prize is: for groundbreaking theoretical contributions to quantum … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcement, Prize, Quantum | 3 Comments

Pop goes the discord bubble

Posted on 12/31/2012 by sflammia

Well, the rat is out of the bag; Schroedinger’s Rat, that is. That’s the new quantum blog by Miguel Navascues and boy is it snarky! I was keeping it under my hat for a while so I could enjoy it privately, but the … Continue reading →

Posted in Hype, Quantum Basterdizations | 13 Comments

Apocalypses, Firewalls, and Boltzmann Brains

Posted on 12/29/2012 by chb

Last week’s plebeian scare-mongering about the world ending at the wraparound of the Mayan calendar did not distract sophisticated readers of gr-qc and quant-ph from a more arcane problem, the so-called Firewall Question.  This concerns what happens to Alice when … Continue reading →

Posted in Off The Deep End, Quantum, Science | 1 Comment