{"id":10512,"date":"2016-01-22T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10512"},"modified":"2016-01-22T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:00:33","slug":"quantum-short-fiction-voting-open-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2016\/01\/22\/quantum-short-fiction-voting-open-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Short Fiction, Voting Open Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Quantum Technologies is running a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/shorts2015.quantumlah.org\/\">Quantum Shorts<\/a>&#8221; contest, where they solicited short stories exploring some aspect of quantum physics. They cut their large number of applicants down to <a href=\"http:\/\/shorts2015.quantumlah.org\/shortlisted-stories\">two short-lists<\/a> of ten, one for the &#8220;Open&#8221; category, and one for the &#8220;Youth&#8221; category. They&#8217;ll be giving out a &#8220;People&#8217;s Choice Award&#8221; based on Internet voting, so you can go over there and vote for your favorite.<\/p>\n<p>There are also judged prizes, and I&#8217;m serving as a judge for the &#8220;Youth&#8221; category (and already sent in my rankings), so it would be inappropriate for me to plug any particular stories as really good. I can, however, point you to all of the finalists, to help you procrastinate on a Friday morning by reading fun stories about quantum physics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shorts2015.quantumlah.org\/entry\/another-eloise\">Another Eloise<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shorts2015.quantumlah.org\/entry\/eyes-infinity\">Eyes of Infinity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shorts2015.quantumlah.org\/entry\/fundamentally-flawed\">Fundamentally Flawed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shorts2015.quantumlah.org\/entry\/guess-door\">Guess the door<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shorts2015.quantumlah.org\/entry\/qubits-college-acceptance\">The Qubits of College Acceptance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shorts2015.quantumlah.org\/entry\/trans-dimensional-resuscitation\">Trans-dimensional resuscitation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shorts2015.quantumlah.org\/entry\/twinzies\">Twinzies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shorts2015.quantumlah.org\/entry\/unrequited-signals\">Unrequited Signals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shorts2015.quantumlah.org\/entry\/war\">W.A.R.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shorts2015.quantumlah.org\/entry\/when-physics-became-chemistry\">When Physics Became Chemistry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Quantum Technologies is running a &#8220;Quantum Shorts&#8221; contest, where they solicited short stories exploring some aspect of quantum physics. They cut their large number of applicants down to two short-lists of ten, one for the &#8220;Open&#8221; category, and one for the &#8220;Youth&#8221; category. They&#8217;ll be giving out a &#8220;People&#8217;s Choice Award&#8221; based&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2016\/01\/22\/quantum-short-fiction-voting-open-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quantum Short Fiction, Voting Open Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,339,7,37,11,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-outreach","category-physics","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}