How to talk to someone about conspiracy theories in five simple steps
People's first instinct when engaging with conspiracy believers is often to try and debunk their ideas with factual and authoritative information.
People's first instinct when engaging with conspiracy believers is often to try and debunk their ideas with factual and authoritative information.
Social Sciences
Jan 20, 2023
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It's the early 1980s, and you’re an equipment manufacturer for the fledgling personal-computer market. For years, modems that send data over the telephone lines have been stuck at a maximum rate of 9.6 kilobits per second: ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 19, 2010
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(Phys.org)—One of the most ambitious endeavors in quantum physics right now is to build a large-scale quantum network that could one day span the entire globe. In a new study, physicists have shown that describing quantum ...
When future users of quantum computers need to analyze their data or run quantum algorithms, they will often have to send encrypted information to the computer.
Quantum Physics
Dec 14, 2016
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Quantum replicants of responsive systems can be more efficient than classical models, say researchers from the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore, because classical models have to store more past information than ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 13, 2017
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(Phys.org)—When Einstein described the interaction between two distant objects as "spooky interaction at a distance," he was referring to the quantum phenomenon called steering. Steering can occur in strongly entangled ...
In a new study from Skoltech and the University of Kentucky, researchers have found a new connection between quantum information and quantum field theory. This work attests to the growing role of quantum information theory ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 9, 2021
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An assistant professor of physics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) will be among a team of international researchers looking to advance the theory of quantum mechanics, a notion challenged by Albert ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 1, 2013
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New research by Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Artemy Kolchinsky and Bernat Corominas-Murtra presents an important distinction for information theory—copying vs. transforming.
Mathematics
Jan 27, 2020
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In information processing, physicists are often in search of ways to turn classical strategies into quantum ones, with the implication that the quantum version is somehow stronger, faster, or more secure ...