Adam Becker @freelanceastro@octodon.social
Freelance astrophysicist. Writing a book about why quantum physics is hard. #scicomm, #openscience. http://freelanceastro.com
TWELVE CHAPTERS
95,561 WORDS
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT: COMPLETED!
#BOOKLIFE #QUANTUM #PHYSICS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9lQ_an0cCI
Eleven chapters written, one to go! #booklife https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw
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Aaronson also has this in a more succinct form in the header of his blog. #quantum #physics #booklife https://octodon.social/media/9_WVFjQ1ozzWPk-y7_s
But he wasn't really right about that, as Scott Aaronson and Zach Weinersmith talk about here: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
#quantum #physics #booklife
Deutsch argued that quantum computers can't be understood without Everett's many-worlds interpretation. #quantum #physics #booklife https://octodon.social/media/68gmh90x1WR0WSC-nak
DSS 65 receiving data from Voyager 1 at 160b/s.
IN LOCK OFF 1 MCD2
BTW, if you're not following @dsn_status, you should be. It tells you what stuff the Deep Space Network is talking to. For example, there are dishes in the network receiving data from Voyager 1, at the edge of the Solar System, *right now.* Blows my mind.
Now reading David Deutsch's seminal paper on #quantum computing from 1985. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall04/cos576/papers/deutsch85.pdf #booklife #physics
"Fresh Out the (Black) Box" by Malcolm Archer http://verysmartbrothas.com/fresh-out-the-black-box/ talks about the experience of being an African-American expat in Geneva:
"Being Black is secondary, supplementary. If you’ve grown up indoctrinated in The StruggleTM, this feels strange, but also liberating. The historical baggage of America’s racial history is gone and so is the burden of anticipating and managing other peoples’ reactions to your Blackness."
via @mjg59@twitter.com
https://social.wxcafe.net/media/bKY-DWFLifEv6CIHs6s
Thorne on disdain for general #relativity 55 years ago. Times change. #physics #booklife https://octodon.social/media/-wxjL7alJzoMqFkuA1A
This is the book, by the way: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Holes-Time-Warps-Commonwealth/dp/0393312763
One of the best physics books out there for non-scientists, though a bit dated at this point. #booklife #physics #relativity
btw I'm a #mefite (though I'm a lurker, I don't post much).
The bunny makes everything better. Here he is eating applesauce and looking regal. #bunstodon https://octodon.social/media/glpMLAVqi6riaMp6M0A https://octodon.social/media/TUTA-1X1JnKOHjwqZbo https://octodon.social/media/FwAPM9pifyMwxWJCpNg
*finally looks around now that work is done*
Let's see what I missed today...oh GODDAMMIT.
THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.
