YouTube – The Relative Uncertainty of Reality

Posted on 2024-09-18 by arjaybe


This reading is The Relative Uncertainty of Reality by Daniel Swindlehurst, from the collection Quantum Shorts. Its quantum themes are computing, reality, time and the uncertainty principle. Could this reality that we live in be a simulation for the entertainment of “reality tourists?”

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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 protons, he becomes Quantum Man. Now he’s obliged to repeatedly save the world, aided by his untrustworthy sidekick, Quantum Cat.

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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 it is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. Listen to this and other stories on the Audio page.

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