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A tale of two qubits: how quantum computers work-reposted from ars technica.

Just how do quantum computers work? It turns out that most of the magic of … Quantum information is the physics of knowledge. To be more specific, the field of quantum information studies the implications that quantum mechanics has on the fundamental nature of information. By studying this...

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Ars Technica—Serving the Technologist for more than a decade

Ars Technica meaning “art of technology” is a technology news and information website created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998. It publishes news, reviews, and guides on issues such as computer hardware and software, science, technology policy, and video games. Many of the site’s writers are...

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Understanding (and Refuting) the Arguments for God-Michael Shermer(quest Sunday special)

Michael Shermer (http://www.michaelshermer.com/)  has made a career of skepticism — he is the founder of Skeptic, for one — but in his 2000 book, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, he does not come across as the hardcore atheist you might expect....