I forgot to do this last week, because I was busy preparing for SteelyPalooza on Saturday, but here are links to my recent physics posts over at Forbes:
— What ‘Ant-Man’ Gets Wrong About The Real Quantum Realm: On the way home from the Schrödinger Sessions, I had some time to kill so I stopped to watch a summer blockbuster. The movie was enjoyable enough, thanks to charming performances from the key players, but the premise is dippy even for a comic-book movie. It does, however, provide a hook to talk about quantum physics, so…
— Great Books For Non-Physicists Who Want To Understand Quantum Physics: I did a bit of name-and-title-dropping at the Schrödinger Sessions, and a few of the writers asked if I had a list of books I would recommend (other than, you know, How to Teach [Quantum] Physics to your Dog). I didn’t have one already put together, so I made a new post listing a dozen good books to read.
— How Quantum Randomness Saves Relativity: Inspired in part by the many discussions of entanglement at the Schrödinger Sessions, a discussion of why you can’t actually use entangled particles to send messages faster than light. “Spooky action at a distance” is impossible because of “God playing dice,” a cute bit of historical irony.
— What Has Quantum Mechanics Ever Done For Us? I know you get more and angrier comments on political posts, but for sheer “WTF?” weirdness in the comment section, nothing beats quantum physics. This is a short explanation of the quantum underpinnings of major modern technologies, in response to a crank who left a bunch of angry comments on a G+ link to the quantum randomness article.
Not a huge number of posts for two weeks of blogging, but I’m very happy with them. And the quantum randomness one in particular is a nice counter to some myths about science communication– over 20,000 people have clicked through to read an article that builds up to a citation of the no-cloning theorem. I’m pretty proud of that.
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1INNwkZ
I forgot to do this last week, because I was busy preparing for SteelyPalooza on Saturday, but here are links to my recent physics posts over at Forbes:
— What ‘Ant-Man’ Gets Wrong About The Real Quantum Realm: On the way home from the Schrödinger Sessions, I had some time to kill so I stopped to watch a summer blockbuster. The movie was enjoyable enough, thanks to charming performances from the key players, but the premise is dippy even for a comic-book movie. It does, however, provide a hook to talk about quantum physics, so…
— Great Books For Non-Physicists Who Want To Understand Quantum Physics: I did a bit of name-and-title-dropping at the Schrödinger Sessions, and a few of the writers asked if I had a list of books I would recommend (other than, you know, How to Teach [Quantum] Physics to your Dog). I didn’t have one already put together, so I made a new post listing a dozen good books to read.
— How Quantum Randomness Saves Relativity: Inspired in part by the many discussions of entanglement at the Schrödinger Sessions, a discussion of why you can’t actually use entangled particles to send messages faster than light. “Spooky action at a distance” is impossible because of “God playing dice,” a cute bit of historical irony.
— What Has Quantum Mechanics Ever Done For Us? I know you get more and angrier comments on political posts, but for sheer “WTF?” weirdness in the comment section, nothing beats quantum physics. This is a short explanation of the quantum underpinnings of major modern technologies, in response to a crank who left a bunch of angry comments on a G+ link to the quantum randomness article.
Not a huge number of posts for two weeks of blogging, but I’m very happy with them. And the quantum randomness one in particular is a nice counter to some myths about science communication– over 20,000 people have clicked through to read an article that builds up to a citation of the no-cloning theorem. I’m pretty proud of that.
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1INNwkZ
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