Indistinguishability and Nonlocality
Issue #67 ~ Why quantum physics doesn't allow faster-than-light communication, despite what entanglement and indistinguishable particles might seem to suggest.
Musings on Quantum Mechanics | Vlatko Vedral
My thoughts on quantum mechanics, how it affects everyone, and how this can help to explain the world around us.
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A Kibitzer in the Game of Constructors
Issue #66 ~ A post where I explore Constructor Theory with Chiara Marletto and David Deutsch, asking whether physics can ultimately be understood through what nature allows and forbids, potentially connecting physics, information and biology.
Quantum Information as Everything
Issue #65
Quantum Entanglement and Life
Issue #64 ~ I’d like to tell you about a very creative Master’s thesis by a physicist called Andrew A. Cochran. It dates back to the mid-sixties, and, given that I can’t find much about him online, I think he didn’t continue his research career. And that’s definitely a shame. But before I describe Cochran’s ideas in more detail (published in Foundations of Physics, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1971), let me…
Does Time Exist?
Issue #63
An Anti-Gravity Machine
Issue #62
Quantising Emptiness
Issue #61 ~ A reflection by Vlatko Vedral on Buddhist emptiness, causality and relativity, and what quantum physics might gain by taking relational thinking further.
One Quantum Thing After Another
Issue #60
It’s Entanglement, Not Complementarity
Issue #59
Why I am Not a Bohmian
Issue #58 ~ There is one question I get asked frequently as a quantum physicist. It’s to do with my preferences regarding the interpretations of quantum mechanics. I am a realist in the sense that I think there is a world out there independent of us. I also do not like the idea that observers play an important role (some would say crucial) in quantum physics. I don’t think observers are needed at…