{"id":1649,"date":"2007-10-17T13:34:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T20:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2007-10-17T13:34:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T20:34:39","slug":"mundane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/10\/17\/mundane\/","title":{"rendered":"Mundane!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick points me to Working for the Revolution by Freeman Dyson, which is a review of<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Faust-Copenhagen-Struggle-Soul-Physics\/dp\/067003858X?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1192653199&amp;sr=8-1\">Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by Gino Segr\u00e8 which contains this gem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTheoretical physicists are now divided into two main factions. Those who<br \/>\nlook forward to another revolution mostly believe that it will grow out of<br \/>\na grand mathematical scheme known as string theory. Those who are content<br \/>\nwith the outcome of the old revolution are mostly studying more mundane<br \/>\nsubjects such as high-temperature superconductors and quantum computers.<br \/>\nString theory may be considered to be the counterattack of those who lost<br \/>\nthe debate over complementarity in physics in Copenhagen in 1932. It is<br \/>\nthe revenge of the heirs of Einstein against the heirs of Bohr. The new<br \/>\ndiscipline of systems biology, describing living creatures as emergent<br \/>\ndynamic organizations rather than as collections of molecules, is the<br \/>\ncounterattack of those who lost the debate over complementarity in biology<br \/>\nin 1953. It is the revenge of the heirs of Bohr against the heirs of<br \/>\nEinstein.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You heard that correctly.  Quantum computing is mundane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick points me to Working for the Revolution by Freeman Dyson, which is a review of Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics by Gino Segr\u00e8 which contains this gem: Theoretical physicists are now divided into two main factions. Those who look forward to another revolution mostly believe that it will grow &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/10\/17\/mundane\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mundane!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-physics","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}