Reminder: the deadline for the registration for the SquInT conference (to be held in sunny partially sunny cloudy rainy Seattle) is this Friday, Dec 12. See here.
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Here we are, enmeshed in a low-grade civil war, and our fearless leaders can't tell the two sides apart.
My friend Paul, the Official Middle East Correspondant of Uncertain Principles, has been doing another rotation in Baghdad, and has sent an update on the "surge." This latest dispatch describes some...
Oh great -- just when you thought it was safe to crawl out of your bunker, more troublke is brewing in the Middle East.
US Congressman, Silvestre Reyes, a Texas Democrat, claimed that al-Qaeda was a predominantly Shia organisation. But the opposite is true -- al-Qaeda are Sunni extremists.
Now if only I had the money to attend...
I presume these folks at SQuInT are interested in how "decoherence" affects quantum systems and what that really is. I am one of those who endlessly argue about "the collapse of the wave function" but I add that it is not resolved by decoherence concepts. One of the targets of my nuisancing is long-suffering Chad Orzel at Uncertain Principles. Today he "honored" (;-) me by setting up a thread in my name: "Official Neil B Quantum Measurement Thread" at http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/12/official_neil_b_quantum_meas…. I made my first comment wearing pajamas in my mother's house, for real. Check it out! It's not all just "philosophy," I included an experiment with changing polarization at one of two slits that seems to have real implications.