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  • Imperfectly Understanding Quantum Discord

    When forced to simplify, some experts explain discord as a measurement of a certain system’s “quantumness”

  • Quantum Teleportation and the Speed of Light

    It remains true that “nothing” can travel faster than the speed of light, even though the definition of “nothing” has been qualified.

  • Not Just a Measure of Our Ignorance

    Reading Dance of the Photons by physics Nobel laureate Anton Zeilinger. Loving it.

  • A Big Deal

    A paradigm shift might be coming where photons and phonons take over the role of electrons in both data storage and computing.

  • Most of All, You Need a Junkyard

    It would be smart if we could incentivise up-and-coming players to compete on ideas and execution, rather than on who’s got the bigger machine.

  • The Fog of Physics

    I once took a course in “Contemporary history”. The most recent couple of decades were out of scope. That’s telling.