Quantum weirdness and surrealism

Quantum weirdness? It's all in your mind.

Cryptography. Simple noise may stymie spies without quantum weirdness.

With the grand ambition of sending unbreakable coded messages, some physicists are using exotic tools—streams of individual photons and quantum mechanics—to shut out prying eyes. But a wire and a few resistors may convey a message as securely, says a physicist who has devised a simple and—he claims—uncrackable scheme. The idea shows that “classical” methods might compete with budding “quantum c...

Quantum Entanglement and Decoherence: Beyond Particle Models. A Farewell to Quantum Mechanics's Weirdness

quantum theory does not describe materiality whereabouts in real space as if they were independent elements; thence no trajectories. So long entangled states evolve in abstract space all possibilities are accessible and can be calculated; some of them might be meaningless (to us) but could be used to help apprehend aspects of phenomena. But, for the present case, entanglement means that once ma...

Impressionism and Surrealism in Multiparticle Dynamics

Peter Carruthers, the scientist, was a man of remarkable mathematical and physical culture. He had also something which is less common now a days, namely a profound physical intuition which guided him to approach in an original way the most interesting problems at a given moment and in this way he became a guide also for others. Multiparticle dynamics being by definition a many-body problem, it...

Digital Surrealism: Visualizing Walt Disney Animation Studios

There are a number of fruitful digital humanities approaches to cinema and media studies, but most of them only pursue traditional forms of scholarship by extracting a single variable from the audiovisual text that is already legible to scholars. Instead, cinema and media studies should pursue a mostly-ignored “digital-surrealism” that uses computer-based methods to transform film texts in radi...