“How the Quantum Craze is Changing the World: From the Hilarious Feynman to 300+ Seriously Powerful Quantum Computers”

Lincoln D. Carr

Colorado School of Mines

Monday September 30th, 2019 at 4:00 PM

120 Engineering (Hammond Auditorium)

In 1981 Richard Feynman suggested that we could recreate quantum reality by creating a copy of it in a quantum computer. Although his speech seemed quite radical at the time, the very next year Bell’s inequalities were incontrovertibly measured, showing that reality is indeed non-local, despite Einstein’s famous complaint in 1931 that this must be why quantum theory is wrong. [Read More…]