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Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also an assistant research professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)
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Over at the Optimizer's place, the Optimizer compares libertarians and those who believe in the many worlds interpretation of quantum theory. (Key Ron Paul apologists in three, two, one...) An amusing comparison. So if many worlders are the libertarians of...
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Posted on May 13, 2008 12:43 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
When discussing ways that quantum computing may fail, a common idea is that it may turn out that the linearity of quantum theory fails. Since no one has seen any evidence of nonlinearity in quantum theory, and it is hard...
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Posted on May 8, 2008 1:11 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
It was an unassuming blue-grey volume tucked away in the popular science section of the Siskiyou County Library. "Spacetime Physics" it announced proudly in gold letters across the front of the book. Published in 1965, the book looked as if...
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Posted on April 15, 2008 2:21 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
I just learned the very sad news that John A. Wheeler has passed away. Wheeler was one of my heroes and inspired me in many ways to be where I am today. I'm buried under a heap of work today,...
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Posted on April 14, 2008 3:54 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
I'm heading home from the March meeting, after giving my talk this morning and then having a nice lunch with graduate (and one undergraduate) students at a "Meet the Experts" lunch. Yeah, somehow I slipped by the guards! Luckily a...
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Posted on March 12, 2008 5:23 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Over at Information Processing, the InfoProcessor talks about teaching Bell's theorem: I find that the hardest thing about teaching this material in class is that, after half a year of training students' brains to think quantum mechanically, it is extremely...
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Posted on March 3, 2008 10:55 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
On the arxiv Friday: arXiv:0802.4248 Title: Coexistence of qubit effects Authors: Peter Stano, Daniel Reitzner, Teiko Heinosaari Comments: A paper with identical title is being published on the arXiv simultaneously by Paul Busch and Heinz-Jurgen Schmidt. These authors solve the...
Posted on March 2, 2008 8:23 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
On President's day I attended the sSQUINT followup conference to SQUINT 2008. sSQUINT? Never heard of it? Neither had I. But when I learned that the "s" stood for "ski" (or maybe "snowboard") and that some of my fellow quantum...
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Posted on February 19, 2008 3:08 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Quantum theory justifying gambling? So reads this column by one Reverend Doctor Mervin Stoddart from Florida in the Jamaica Observer....
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Posted on February 11, 2008 11:26 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Super Mario World vs. the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics: Those of you who know me outside of this blog will find that particular juxtaposition of physics and Nintendo very amusing....
Posted on February 7, 2008 3:46 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
