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When Scientific American writes that physicists are working on a theory of everything, does it sound ambitious enough to you? Do you lie awake at night thinking that a theory of [...]
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IQIM Presents …”my father”
Debaleena Nandi at Caltech Following the IQIM teaser, which was made with the intent of creating a wider perspective of the scientist, to highlight the normalcy behind the [...]
How to build a teleportation machine: Intro to qubits
A match made in heaven. If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? The [...]
Quantum gravity from quantum error-correcting codes?
The lessons we learned from the Ryu-Takayanagi formula, the firewall paradox and the ER=EPR conjecture have convinced us that quantum information theory can become a powerful tool to sharpen our [...]
The Graphene Effect
Lunch with Spiros, Eryn, and Jackie at the Athenaeum (left to right). Sitting and eating lunch in the room where Einstein and many others of turbo charged, ultra-powered [...]
The 10 biggest breakthroughs in physics over the past 25 years, according to us.
Making your way to the cutting edge of any field is a daunting challenge. But especially when the edge of the field is expanding; and even harder still when the [...]
Macroscopic quantum teleportation: the story of my chair
In the summer of 2000, a miracle occurred: The National Science Foundation decided to fund a new Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech with a 5 million dollar award from [...]
Don’t sweat the epsilons…and it’s all epsilons
I'd come to Barnes and Noble to study and to submerse in the bustle. I needed reminding that humans other than those on my history exam existed. When I ran [...]
Remembering Arthur Wightman
Arthur Wightman Arthur Wightman passed away this past January, at age 90. He was one of the great mathematical physicists of the past century. Two [...]
A poll on the foundations of quantum theory
Erwin Schrödinger. Discussions of quantum foundations often seem to involve his much abused cat. The group of physicists seriously engaged in studies of the “foundations” [...]