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Today’s reading is Quantum Man by Clifton Rumsey.

Clifton Rumsey has a background spanning the sciences from physics to neuroscience, rendering him more wave than particle at this point. On the other hand, his position can be localised to a well-defined orbit around Austin, Texas. Unfortunately, this leaves his momentum wildly uncertain. While several of his multiverse selves have already won every major scientific, literary, entertainment, and humanitarian award available, in this universe it remains a work in progress.

The quantum concepts in Quantum Man are gravity, the Large Hadron Collider, probability, superposition and Young’s double slit experiment.

An accident at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider turns a janitor into Quantum Man.

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Today’s reading is The Entanglement Proposal by Vina Jie-Min Prasad.

Vina Jie-Min Prasad is a Singaporean writer working against the world-machine. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Uncanny Magazine, and Fireside Fiction. She was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards in 2018.

The quantum concept in The Entanglement Proposal is entanglement.

Is it a good idea to test your relationship by spending a month in an entangled state, when each one feels the opposite of the other’s emotions?

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Today’s reading is Beam Therapy by Ricky Nathvani.

At the publication of Quantum Shorts Ricky Nathvani was a post-doctoral researcher at Imperial College, London. He used to work on proton structure for applications at the Large Hadron Collider and has since pivoted into applying machine learning to study problems in global environmental health. When not doing research, he enjoys books, black coffee, boulders, beer-fuelled conversations and board games.

The quantum concepts in Beam Therapy are the atom, maths, probability, and the uncertainty principle.

The harrowing uncertainty of radiation therapy.

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