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Quantum Time and Cloning

I’ve recently been busy finalising a big review (300 plus references), together with Chiara Marletto, on Quantum Information methods applied to detecting…

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Pyramids, Consciousness and the Limits of Science

I’ve recently watched a great simulation of how the human hearing mechanism operates. The air vibrations generated by some disturbance eventually reach our eardrum. The ensuing vibrations of the drum perturb a small bone called the hammer which starts to move up and down.

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Quantum computational advantage and counting particles and waves

Many people take the beginning of the field of quantum computation to be a paper by Feynman titled “There is plenty of room at the bottom” (1959, but unnoticed till the early 80s).

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Gnostic quantum computing

In the “Gospel according to Judas”, the writer (most likely not Judas Iscariot himself) tells a different story of Jesus (to the 4 Gospels in the Bible).

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(Scientific) Ghost Busters

A couple of days ago there was a YouTube feed for me recommending a clip in which Richard Dawkins was interviewed by Piers Morgan. Now, my readers will almost certainly know who Dawkins is, however, they may not be familiar with Morgan (best leave it at that 😊).

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Duane the Man

Lots of my writing emphasises the consistency and coherence of scientific explanations across the board. For instance, to take an almost random example, the Victorian physicists had a problem with Darwin’s theory of evolution because Kelvin’s estimate for the age of the Earth was too inaccurate.

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