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This is a cute movie on the famous double-slit experiment, featuring a caped and bespectacled superhero Dr Quantum. I show it in class to my undergrads as they first get exposed to quantum mechanics. Enjoy!
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While it would be totally cool if we were to reveal that Erwin Schroedinger, one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, had been a proto-blogger of some kind, I am afraid no such luck today. Schroedinger’s cat is a well-known thought experiment that emphasizes how critical the concept of measurement is for “knowing” things in…
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The brief answer is: I am an academic who happens to like science fiction. Spouse and I have been watching Battlestar Galactica, which starts with the demise of the 12 colonies settled by the tribes from the ancient planet of Kobol. Note how it’s Kobol, with a “K”, and not Cobol (as in one of the…
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