Having it both ways - Open Parachute
Ken Perrott • Oct 24, 2011 •
Picked up this on Twitter – cute: Thanks to Peter Prevos (pprevos). Read More
Tagged: quantum mechanics
Quantum computing - A Measure of Science
Shaun Hendy • Oct 06, 2010 •
On Thursday evening, I will be talking about quantum computing on Bryan Crump’s radio show (Nights, Radio New Zealand National, 8.42pm, 7 October). Bryan and I have had several conversations on the workings of contemporary computing technologies, from quantum mechanics to transistors, and then on to how transistors are assembled into integrated circuits. … Read More
The quantum mechanics of gadgets - A Measure of Science
Shaun Hendy • May 31, 2010 •
I will be on Bryan Crump’s show again this week (Radio New Zealand Nights, 8.42pm Thursday June 3rd). Bryan wants to talk about how quantum mechanics underpins modern technology. If quantum mechanics exists in the public consciousness at all, it is through some of its spookier concepts like Schrödinger’s cat, wave-particle duality or … Read More
On the matter of time, and how the past crystallises out of the future - misc.ience
Aimee Whitcroft • Jan 20, 2010 •
Yes, you read the title correctly. In a fascinating paper written by George Ellis, of me ol’ alma mater the University of Cape Town and Tony Rothman, from Princeton University in New Jersey, they posit that the place where this crystallisation occurs is, interestingly, the present. Read More