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If you find yourself tunnelling through a Bose-Einstein condensate, you might end up visiting many worlds before your wavefunction collapses.

Today’s reading is Indistinguishable by Kenton K. Yee.

Having dabbled in theoretical physics, law, and economics, Kenton K. Yee now ponders, invests, and writes from Northern California. He has placed poetry and short fiction in venues ranging from The Los Angeles Review to Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. His academic articles appear in venues such as Physical Review, Nuclear Physics, and Financial Analysts Journal.

The quantum concepts in Indistinguishable are the Bose-Einstein condensate, the Josephson junction, many worlds theory, Planck’s constant, tunneling, wave-particle duality and the wavefunction.

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If you don’t open the envelope, do its contents remain indeterminate?

Today’s reading is The Qubits of College Acceptance, by Lily Turaski.

Lily Turaski graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021 with a degree in Materials Science Engineering and a minor in Chemistry. In addition to her chosen subjects, she enjoys researching electronic materials and riding horses. She won the 2015 and 2017 Quantum Shorts People’s Choice Awards.

The quantum concepts in The Qubits of College Acceptance are the act of observation, the qubit, Schrodinger’s cat and superposition.

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If you could go back in time and give yourself some advice, would it be about love or money?

Today’s reading is A Future with Fortran, by Lily Turaski.

Lily Turaski graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021 with a degree in Materials Science Engineering and a minor in Chemistry. In addition to her chosen subjects, she enjoys researching electronic materials and riding horses. She won the 2015 and 2017 Quantum Shorts People’s Choice Awards.

The quantum concepts in A Future with Fortran are light, many worlds, probability and time.

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