{"id":188,"date":"2007-01-13T10:10:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T10:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2007-01-13T10:10:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T10:10:49","slug":"quantum-computing-since-democritus-lecture-9-quantum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 9: Quantum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many students indicated that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec9.html\">this<\/a> was their favorite lecture in the whole course &#8212; the one that finally made them feel at home in QuantumLand.  Come read about why quantum mechanics, far from being a mysterious, arbitrary structure foisted on us by experiment, is something that mathematicians could easily have discovered without leaving their armchairs.   (They <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em>?  Minor detail&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Marvel, too, at the <strike>beautiful<\/strike> &#8230; well anyway, at the displayed equations courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forkosh.com\/mimetex.html\">mimeTeX<\/a>, an eminently-useful CGI script that I downloaded and got working all by myself.  (Who says complexity theorists can&#8217;t set up a CGI script?  Boo-yah!)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been thinking about following the course but haven&#8217;t, this lecture would be a perfect place to start &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t use any of the earlier lectures as prerequisites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many students indicated that this was their favorite lecture in the whole course &#8212; the one that finally made them feel at home in QuantumLand. Come read about why quantum mechanics, far from being a mysterious, arbitrary structure foisted on us by experiment, is something that mathematicians could easily have discovered without leaving their armchairs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democritus","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}