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What if the past and the future are quantum states, and the more you know about one, the less you can know about the other?

Today’s reading is Time Management by Przemysław Zańko.

Przemysław Zańko is a Polish speculative fiction writer who lives in Warsaw with his fiancée. He has published several short stories, won some awards and is busy writing novels. His hobbies include video games, “Doctor Who”, psychology, exploring strange corners of the Internet and swimming.

The quantum concepts in Time Management are the act of observation, the Large Hadron Collider, many worlds theory, Planck’s constant, Schrodinger’s cat, time and the uncertainty principle.

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The uncertainty of two particles, two wavefunctions meeting on a subway train.

We’re down to the last few of these quantum shorts. But that’s okay because I found a second volume of them. I’ll have to record them, then I can upload them.

Today’s reading is Superpose by Yuen Xiang Hao.

Yuen Xiang Hao teaches physics and astronomy at an independent school in Singapore, with an occasional sideline into creative writing, photography and other forms of irrationality.

The quantum concepts in Superpose are superposition, the uncertainty principle and the wavefunction.

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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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