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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Donating is grand; boosting this, even, will be helpful, to get the message around.
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
@CobaltVelvet thank you!
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."
@pzmyers I disagree about "twigs and leaves." There are concepts and questions at the core of science that have made great fodder for high-profile #scicomm, like the quest for a theory of quantum gravity. Just like in conservation ecology, there are charismatic megafauna of #scicomm, subjects that are overrepresented due to the hold they have on the public imagination. But, to mix metaphors, I don't think those megafauna tend to be farther from the trunk of the tree of science.
@Idoubtit huh. Just saw this and looked at your website. You've carved out a fascinating niche. Who is your audience? And if you don't mind my asking, how do you support yourself with this work?
@CobaltVelvet I noticed that too. But mastodon.xyz is older, right? That could account for them having more posts. So maybe the real question is why mastodon.cloud is so quiet.
@ThierryJoffredo oui, je suis ercrire un livre de histoire de quantum physique pour Hachette maintenant. Mais c'est en Anglais. Je suis American, et je ne parle pas Français bien, comme vous voir ici. Desolée! 🙁
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