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About arjaybe

Jim has fought forest fires and controlled traffic in the air and on the sea. Now he writes stories.

YouTube – Quantum Man

Posted on 2024-09-15 by arjaybe

This reading is Quantum Man by Clifton Rumsey, from the collection Quantum Shorts. Its quantum themes are Hawking radiation, Planck’s constant, superposition and tunneling, among others. When the janitor at the Large Hadron Collider is struck by errant beams of … Continue reading →

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The Juniper Tree – Part Three

Posted on 2024-09-13 by arjaybe

Today’s reading is part three of The Juniper Tree by John Kessel, part of a collection of short stories called The Baum Plan for Financial Independence. It is about twelve and a half minutes long. Like other Okanagan Reader stories … Continue reading →

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YouTube – The Entanglement Proposal

Posted on 2024-09-11 by arjaybe

This reading is The Entanglement Proposal by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, from the collection Quantum Shorts. Its quantum theme is entanglement. With entangled particles, when one is observed in one state, the other instantly expresses the opposite. What if two people … Continue reading →

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