YouTube – Quantum Shorts – Quantopia

Today’s reading is Quantopia by Judy Helfrich.

Judy Helfrich was born on the Canadian prairie where long stretches of nothing persisted in at least four dimensions. Her fiction has appeared in Nature and has also been shortlisted in the Quantum Shorts contests.

The quantum concepts in Quantopia are reality, superposition and wavefunction.

Can a quantum computer find your soulmate? Can you be happy with eternal bliss?

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YouTube – Quantum Shorts – A Slice of Reality

Today’s reading is A Slice of Reality by Judy Helfrich.

Judy Helfrich was born on the Canadian prairie where long stretches of nothing persisted in at least four dimensions. Her fiction has appeared in Nature and has also been shortlisted in the Quantum Shorts contests.

The quantum concepts in A Slice of Reality are Reality and Superposition.

Would it be a good thing is our brains were able to perceive all of reality at once?

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YouTube – Quantum Shorts – From the Ruins of Beijing

Today’s Quantum Short is From the Ruins of Beijing by Andrew Neil Gray.

Andrew Neil Gray is an author of speculative fiction who lives and works on Canada’s West Coast. He’s the co-author of the novella The Ghost Line (Tor.com 2017)

The quantum concepts in From the Ruins of Beijing are Computing, Decoherence, Entanglement, Many worlds (Multiverse), Qubit and Superposition.

How much could you improve local efficiency if you could dump entropy into other universes?

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