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Some thoughts about Quantum Egalitarianism…

I’ve talked before about a property called “quantum totalitarianism”, a phrase used by Bryce DeWitt to illustrate the fact that anything that couples to a quantum system has itself got to be quantum.

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It was my birthday last week and the best present I got was a telescope

The first thing I did was point it at Saturn. I was lucky that the night was cloudless (I stood on a balcony of a house in a small village in Piedmont, Italy).

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Why rethinking time in quantum mechanics could help us unite physics

I would like to take you with me, just for a minute or two, on a journey through space and time. We are minding our own business, watching the stars and galaxies zip by, when, suddenly, an invisible force draws us in.

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Do not enter if you do not understand geometry (or waves)

This statement (without “or waves”) was written on the entrance of Plato’s Academy (a.k.a. the first University in the World) in the Ancient Athens.

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The Principle of “No Minor Tweaking”

The fact that quantum physics is somehow “tighter” than classical has been advocated a number of times by many different people. A tighter description of reality usually is considered a better explanation for the observable phenomena, but what does ‘tighter’ actually mean?

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Quantum Physics and Consciousness

I know, I know. Yes, it’s a weird topic, but it has been receiving a great deal of coverage and all sorts of things have been claimed and argued. So, here is my two cents.

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