New leader at the Perimeter Institute this Friday, Perimeter researcher wins prestigious award, a summer school on quantum cryptography, the answer is not quantum physics, and quarter charge quasiparticles for quantum computing....
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Posted on May 6, 2008 12:02 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Eat anything you want and lose weight? How? By using quantum physics of course!:Freedom From Food looks at food and weight from a unique vantage point. It examines the mind/body connection - how your thoughts and emotions affect your body....
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Posted on April 2, 2008 8:22 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Postdoc in Italy, AQIS 2008 Call for Papers, the Register reports on QUEST, and the New Scientist morphs into the No Scientist....
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Posted on April 1, 2008 12:01 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Holy mother of quack science, Neuroquantology. But that withstanding, some of you real scientists should really satisfy their call for reviewers. I mean think how much fun you could have tearing holes in their papers :We need additional reviewers: Since...
Posted on January 8, 2008 12:40 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Superexchange in optical lattices, factoring 15 in a linear optics quantum computer, quantum plagarism peaceful resolution, silicon and gallium arsinide quantum computers, and quantum mumbo jumbo in support of the ideas popularly known as God....
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Posted on December 22, 2007 3:33 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Murray Gell-Mann always makes me laugh. Via Asymptotia here is what Murray said while giving a Ted talk:I won't go into a lot of stuff about quantum mechanics and what it's like and so on...you've heard a lot of wrong...
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Posted on December 14, 2007 5:03 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
His Squidiness points to a real whopper of a silly article titled "Was Einstein Wrong About Special Relativity?" by Darrell Williams who is listed as a "Mathematician" and a "graduate of Arizona State University."...
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Posted on December 5, 2007 5:41 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Well it is certainly true that Mystics and quantum physicists speak the same language, that language most probably being Mandarin, English, or Hindi, but I'm guessing that's probably not what they meant by that title. I should have stopped reading...
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Posted on November 24, 2007 5:18 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
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.)
