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Kindergarten Quantum Physics

They say Albert Einstein had his first scientific epiphany at age 4. His father showed him a compass, and the young Einstein realized that the needle’s motion is affected by an invisible force.

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Liberal Scientific Education: A battle for hearts and minds

Some hundred and fifty years ago a great British biologist, Thomas Henry Huxley, compared life to a game of chess in his essay on “Liberal Education”. He invited us to imagine that our survival and well-being depended on winning or losing at a game of chess.

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Entropic Forces

This mysteriously sounding concept is widely used in biology. The chief reason being that life, in fact, is a struggle against the Second Law of thermodynamics.

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Crazy Quantum (Late-Night) Thoughts

The main obstacle to us making progress in quantum physics is the persistent (and misplaced) belief that quantum physics needs to be fixed.

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What is a Q-Field?

I have frequently talked about the interpretation of quantum physics implying that “everything is a quantum wave”. Here I’d like to explain this a bit better and, more importantly, tell you about some problems with this picture of the universe.

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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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