Summary of Nicole Yunger Halpern's Quantum Steampunk

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Caspian arrived late to the tea party, and was greeted by Audrey, who had a discovery to make about time and quantum physics. She explained that her brother was developing a superior version of the fly that could extract energy from a certain type of light.
#2 I’m a theoretical physicist who works at the intersection of quantum physics, information processing, and thermodynamics. I intersect the futuristic technology of quantum computers with the Victorian setting of thermodynamics, after the fashion of steampunk.
#3 The field of thermodynamics is the oldest, and it studies systems that can be manipulated and observed. It studies steam, metal, water, and the like. Classical systems behave in a manner that can be predicted using physics codified before the 1920s.
#4 The promise of quantum technologies is that they will be able to solve certain problems that would take classical computers many years. They could break part of the encryption that protects web transactions from hackers.

Sujets

• Physics
• Quantum Theory

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 27 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781669392958
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Nicole Yunger Halpern's Quantum Steampunk
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Caspian arrived late to the tea party, and was greeted by Audrey, who had a discovery to make about time and quantum physics. She explained that her brother was developing a superior version of the fly that could extract energy from a certain type of light.

#2

I’m a theoretical physicist who works at the intersection of quantum physics, information processing, and thermodynamics. I intersect the futuristic technology of quantum computers with the Victorian setting of thermodynamics, after the fashion of steampunk.

#3

The field of thermodynamics is the oldest, and it studies systems that can be manipulated and observed. It studies steam, metal, water, and the like. Classical systems behave in a manner that can be predicted using physics codified before the 1920s.

#4

The promise of quantum technologies is that they will be able to solve certain problems that would take classical computers many years. They could break part of the encryption that protects web transactions from hackers.

#5

I am participating in the revolution. I am not the first in the field; nor am I the only revolutionary. My colleagues span the globe, and augurs of our mission have whispered as early as the 1930s.

#6

I first encountered steampunk when I was in elementary school, watching The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. and Will Smith starred as a sheriff in the film Wild Wild West. I loved the balance between useful quantum technologies and fundamentals.

#7

I worked on quantum-information thermodynamics at Perimeter, and I hearkened back to natural philosophy, helping build the future while yearning for the past. I coined the term quantum steampunk to describe my research.

#8

I am a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution’s Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. I write this book as a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland.

#9

The Victorian era featured phenomena not to be celebrated, such as colonialism, racism, inhumane working conditions, child labor, and environmental destruction. However, quantum steampunk offers an opportunity to revive the nineteenth century’s successes while improving on its shortfalls.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Information is the capacity to distinguish among alternatives. We live in the information age, but what is information. According to one viewpoint, information is the capacity to distinguish among alternatives.

#2

Information is stored and transmitted using codes. We encode messages in physical systems to store and transmit them. The ink in a book illustrates such an encoding.

#3

The gatekeeper must distinguish whether Audrey belongs to his cabal. She conveys a lot of information when she speaks the password, but the gatekeeper only needs to hear the password to know she belongs. The more expected an event is, or the higher its probability, the less information it conveys.

#4

The amount of information the gatekeeper gains from the joint event is the logarithm of the inverse of the event’s probability. This number is called the event’s surprisal, because it measures how much the event surprises you. The more an event surprises you, the more information you learn.

#5

The word bit refers to the unit of information, but it is also used in other ways by information scientists. It can refer to an event that can take two paths, such as a marriage proposal, and a physical system that can be in one of two states.

#6

Information theory is the study of how we can quantify information and perform information-processing tasks. The liver of information theory is a function of surprisals, which takes in surprisals and spits out a number.

#7

The Shannon entropy is the best efficiency with which we can perform an information-processing task. It is the measure of the amount of information contained in a random string of letters. By the end of the final novel, Audrey has written one of 211,000 possible strings.