Here’s a stunner: Nobelist Frank Wilczek, talking about the same stuff I’ve been on about for 40 years, regarding color v. action, symmetry, and higher dimensions. I’ve just now had a look at Wilczek’s new book* and was fascinated to discover that he’d also echoed my ideas on color space…

Summary Google’s Quantum AI team, which works with NASA and D-Wave Systems, recently announced concrete evidence of huge runtime gains for proof-of-principle optimization problems with D-Wave’s latest quantum computer. The 1000+ qubit D-Wave 2X quantum annealer outperforms classical processors by a factor of over 10 to the 8, or 100 million…

Here’s a valuable new book just down from Cambridge. As with Penrose, it’s not so much a matter of what’s being said, but who’s doing the talking. The distinguished professor put his predecessors on the map, including Stapp, Lockwood, Umezawa and [blushing] me. This collection of essays is quite respectable…

Around 10 years ago, I predicted that a revolution in quantum theory was at hand. As has often been observed, you can’t be wrong all the time. New Physics Questions the Very Nature of Reality Physicists speak of the world as being made of particles and force fields, but it…

It’s alive! “For a specific, carefully crafted proof-of-concept problem we achieve a 100-million-fold speed-up.” Google says it has proof that a controversial machine it bought in 2013 really can use quantum physics to work through a type of math that’s crucial to artificial intelligence much faster than a conventional computer. …

[Called it! I wrote the following (slightly edited) article 10 years ago. Recently, Oxford, Cambridge and Yale have created programs and institutes devoted to the foundations of quantum theory — remarkable signs of life in a field that was largely moribund for many years.] The aspects of things that are…

It seems clear that the present quantum mechanics is not in its final form […] I think it very likely, or at any rate quite possible, that in the long run Einstein will turn out to be correct. ~ Dirac Oxford and Cambridge recently created groups devoted to the foundations…

Einstein and the Future of Civilization, Such As It Is Some years ago, Hawking wrote that, when someone brings up the interpretation of quantum theory, he reaches for his gun. I guess he changed his mind. Here he is, talking about EPR, completeness, and Gödel. Let’s revisit what Einstein & Co. said on the subject of completeness: Whatever the meaning assigned to the term complete, the following requirement for a complete theory seems to be a necessary one: every element of the physical reality must have a counterpart in the physical theory.