YouTube – Quantum Shorts – The Qubits of College Acceptance

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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YouTube – Quantum Shorts – A Future with Fortran

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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YouTube – Quantum Shorts – Postmortem

What would you do if you were little and your grandmother, who’s funeral you had just been to, came over to visit?

Today’s reading is Postmortem by Abel James Tilda.

Abel James Tilda has degrees in Art History and Archaeology and lives in California. In his spare time, he enjoys playing music, walking up and down very big hills, and writing. He wrote this in the past, and now it is one of many futures. He wonders what will happen next.

The quantum concept in Postmortem is Schrodinger’s cat.

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