Via quantumbiodiscs I learn that Google Book Search now has full out-of-copyright books in full form. A search for “quantum computer” yields four books, one of which is “Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life.” It seems that quantum computing is at least receiving a nice reception among Kabbalists.
Okay, so those of you who know me know I love Fermi’s Paradox: “Where are they?” (And by “they” I mean extraterristrials, not some other they, like, physics and literature majors. I guess I’m more attuned to noticing that later odd specimen, but you’d be amazed at how popular that combination is.) One variant of [...]
Oh wow does this (via Structure & Strangeness) hit home. Yep, I spent large portions of my trip on the ferries in Alaska doing perturbation theory calculations.
Congrats to Christian Weedbrook, Thomas Symul, Andrew Lance, and Ping Koy Lam from the University of Queensland and the Australian National University for winning the University of New South Wales Eureka Prize for Scientific Research for research on quantum cryptography.
Quant-ph people have some interesting comments, but those cond-mat people just one-uped everyone: cond-mat/0608492 Title: Do superconductors violate Lenz’s law? Authors: J.E. Hirsch Comments: Readers are invited to place a wager on the outcome of the proposed experiment, this http URL Subj-class: Superconductivity; Strongly Correlated Electrons Wagering? On the ArXiv?
Terence Tao, in a UCLA press release about his Fields medal: What are Tao’s secrets for success? Tao, who was raised in Australia, offered some insight. “I don’t have any magical ability,” he said. “I look at a problem, and it looks something like one I’ve done before; I think maybe the idea that worked [...]
French Caribbean anyone? The First International Conference on Quantum, Nano, and Micro Technologies, ICQNM 2007 to be held on Guadeloupes.
Fields Medals: Okounkov, Perelman, Tao, Werner. I was excited to see Terence Tao win because I’ve actually read and understood one of his papers. Not the stuff he’s winning the Medal for, of course. See Michael Nielsen (rising from his deep silence ) for connections of Tao’s work to quantum information science (by Hayden, Daftuar, [...]
This last week has been a big week. I guess I’ll start at today and work backwards. Today, we closed on purchasing a home in Seattle and get the keys in a few hours. Yep, it’s sold! One requirement we had when searching for a house was that it had to be house which we [...]
A new quantum computing blog! Geordie Rose, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of D-Wave (the British Columbia company questing to build a quantum computer) now has a blog called rose.blog. Geordie certainly named the blog after his last name, but when I read that title, I hear “Rosebud” and want to go sledding.
Here is an interesting little flash about imagining up to 10 dimensions.
