Dancing Around the Four Sides

Oh, I'm around, although delayed. Seems the Comcast has interpreted my disapproval of their service as a signal to make it all break on me.

I have access to Deutsch's papers, if not the actual article, but I'm afraid that quantum computation is a field I don't truly understand except in it's most basic form (the last time I paid attention to it they were all aflutter because they had just managed to computer 3 times 5). It's a fascinating field, but for me the knowledge borders on the arcane. In more religious matters, I'm also not quite sure of the Many-World Interpretation, being like most physicists raised in the Copenhagen tradition, and like most experimentalists converting to Instrumentalism in my studies (Wikipedia attributes the core expression of instrumentalism to David Mermin: "Shut up and calculate". Only theorists really have the time to fight battles over the interpretation of quantum mechanics, battles which are all the more arcane for being currently indeterminate. So I don't know if I would have to fake religious umbrage when reading the article or not.

The field is fascinating though, and there's a lot of future in it. What there has been so far though is a lack of people who can make it accessible to the public. Hopefully this article is a step in the right direction (on that note: Dear taxpayers, please fund us. kthxbai).