{"id":1857,"date":"2008-03-07T14:32:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T21:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2008-03-07T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T21:32:14","slug":"qubits-qbits-qbits-qubits-q-bits-and-light-nanoseconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/07\/qubits-qbits-qbits-qubits-q-bits-and-light-nanoseconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Qubits, Qbits, qbits, qubits, q-bits, and light nanoseconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurray!  My letter to <a href=\"http:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/content\/aip\/magazine\/physicstoday\">Physics Today<\/a> along with a   delightful response from N. David Mermin has been published.  I particularly enjoyed Mermin&#8217;s closing line: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It may be quixotic (but certainly not Qxotic) to try to correct the spelling of an entire community, but I owe it my best shot. What else is retirement good for? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sweet!  Now I can check off from my list of things to do in life: &#8220;Get published in Physics Today over issues related to my literature degree.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurray! My letter to Physics Today along with a delightful response from N. David Mermin has been published. I particularly enjoyed Mermin&#8217;s closing line: It may be quixotic (but certainly not Qxotic) to try to correct the spelling of an entire community, but I owe it my best shot. What else is retirement good for? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/07\/qubits-qbits-qbits-qubits-q-bits-and-light-nanoseconds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Qubits, Qbits, qbits, qubits, q-bits, and light nanoseconds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[53,65,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-quantum-computing","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","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=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}