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This is slightly off-topic (I'm going to be that "this is sorta more a comment than a question..." guy for a second), but I just want to say that Scott's blog i
by pc 8y ago
This is slightly off-topic (I'm going to be that "this is sorta more a comment than a question..." guy for a second), but I just want to say that Scott's blog is one of my favorite blogs on the whole internet. If only there were more like it!
- ScottAaronson 8y agoThanks!!!
- lisper 8y agoI know that me-too type posts are frowned upon here on HN, but in this case I think an exception is warranted. Too many scientists ensconce themselves in the ivory tower and treat the rest of the world with attitudes ranging from indifference to outright disdain. I also want to thank you for not following that model. On a totally unrelated note, I've been trying to wrap my brain around coherent states and the photon-number/phase uncertainty relationship (e.g. http://hitoshi.berkeley.edu/221a/coherentstate.pdf http://hitoshi.berkeley.edu/221a/coherentstate.pdf). Do you know of any simple intuitive stories one can tell about that like one can with position-momentum uncertainty? I know this isn't really in your wheelhouse, but people who both understand this stuff and are willing to field questions like this are exceedingly rare (see above paragraph). (FWIW, and for the benefit of lurkers, this question was prompted by the discussion on this blog post: http://blog.rongarret.info/2018/05/a-quantum-mechanics-puzzle-part-drei.html http://blog.rongarret.info/2018/05/a-quantum-mechanics-puzzl.... Also FWIW, that's my blog.)