This has to be the most pointless science “experiment” that I have ever come across. That article was in today’s print edition of The Times of India; the original researcher, Jesse Anderson’s report is here. The claim is that a bunch of computer-simulated “monkeys” have typed all of Shakespeare’s works — as, theoretically, it is [...]

After discussion, online and offline, relating to Dilip’s recent post and my rejoinder, here are some further thoughts on the question of putting a cat in a superposition of dead-alive states. First, quantum mechanically a “superposition of states” is just a state, mathematically as valid as any other. It’s like choosing a different “basis vector” [...]

The other day, Dilip D’Souza, a writer whom I enjoy reading, wrote an article that I did not enjoy reading. And it was not for the usual reasons, that it exposed some uncomfortable truths and made me question my assumptions on the society we live in. No, it was on a very familiar topic — [...]