Green Comet

He’s a qubit delivery man.

This reading is Qubit Superhighway by Liam Hogan, an award winning short story writer. He helps host the Liars League and volunteers at the Ministry of Stories. The quantum concepts are decoherence, Planck’s constant, the qubit, teleportation, tunneling, wave-particle duality and zero-point energy. If he’s the qubit delivery man, then who else is driving the truck?

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This one is about cats, and they’re not in boxes.

This reading is Possible Cats by Michael Haiden, a research associate in Technology Ethics. His philosophical writings focus on political theory, ethics and the history of ideas. The quantum concept in Possible Cats is the multiverse. If it was possible to reach into an alternate universe and replace your dead cat, would you? Would it be ethical? What if it was your dead little brother?

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This one is hard to write a brief precis of.

This reading is Lost Connection by Anjelica Grey, a science fiction and fantasy writer. Her husband and cats are surprisingly tolerant of how much she talks to herself. The quantum concepts in this story are entanglement, multiverse, reality and superposition. It’s a sad tale of loss. But is it worse because it’s not completely lost?

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