Model of haze in Venus atmosphere, a planet rising from the ashes of its predecessors, a brain-computer interface that works through hair, quantum entanglement to increase stability of quantum effects, a material that is also a robot, AI helps improve battery chemistry, a 3D printed microplastic filter, and Artemis II data is now available.
Continuously Quantum Reality
In a recent essay from Quanta Magazine, “Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve,” Ball argues for a resolution to these seeming contradictions proposed by Zurek in a recent book called Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism.
Quantum Magic
Especially in movies and television that fall loosely under the science fiction moniker, ‘quantum’ has somehow become a stand-in for ‘magic.’ Whether this is because the writers don’t understand quantum physics, or think their audience doesn’t, it bothers me.
