Weekend reading: The write stuff

by The Investor on May 16, 2026

What caught my eye this week.

I met up with an old university friend recently who works in quantum computing. When I last saw him 20 years ago he hadn’t yet written important papers on how to get quantum computers to do useful stuff. Or maybe he had but nobody cared. It was all still science fiction.

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1 Tom-Baker Dr Who May 16, 2026, 11:48 am

As someone who works daily using quantum mechanics and has been involved involved a few times with quantum information/quantum computing, here are my tuppence:
* The usual cliche ‘nobody understands quantum mechanics’ is rather misleading. The right question is really how can we understand our (classical mechanics) everyday experience given that Nature is really governed by quantum mechanics. This question has been basically answered.
* The best summary of how to make sense of quantum mechanics that I ever came across is Sidney Coleman’s lecture `Quantum Mechanics in your Face.’ There is an old (very grainy) video recording of the whole lecture on YouTube that is worth watching, if you are curious (much better than ChatGPT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtyNMlXN-sw

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