{"id":2010,"date":"2008-01-24T10:10:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T10:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/24\/dorky-poll-scientific-hopes\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T10:10:14","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T10:10:14","slug":"dorky-poll-scientific-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/24\/dorky-poll-scientific-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorky Poll: Scientific Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little while ago, the Corporate Masters asked us to answer a couple of questions for possible inclusion in the first ’08 issue of Seed<\/cite>. I originally posted this back in November, but got asked to take it down because the issue was hush-hush. The street date for the magazine in question was this week, though, and I busted up my wrist playing basketball yesterday, so I’m dragging it back out because typing hurts.<\/p>\n

The question is:<\/p>\n

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What scientific development do you hope to be blogging or reading about in 2008?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The original question was more general, asking us just what we’d like to be blogging about in the coming year, but I restricted my answer (below the fold) to science stuff, and for the sake of general sanity, I’m going to restrict this post to scientific issues. I’ll put up a second post for political hopes.<\/p>\n

But for this post, what would you like to be blogging about (if you’re a blogger) or reading about (if you’re not a blogger) in the coming year? It could be a physics breakthrough, a math theorem, a new medical technique, or anything else in the realm of science. It should ideally be something that might plausibly happen in 2008, but that’s your call to make. It should also be brief, Jonathan Vos Post.<\/p>\n

My answer, from the world of physics:<\/p>\n

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On a personal level, I’d like to be blogging about the upcoming release of my book. Or, better yet, the better-than-expected sales of my book… My deadline for handing the manuscript in is August 1, though, so unless I hand it in very early, I doubt that it’ll come out before early 2009. We’ll see, though.<\/p>\n

In terms of science, I’d like to be blogging about new and exciting results from the AMO\/ Quantum Optics physics community. There are a few experiments out there with the potential to do really exciting things in the near future, such as the molecule-based searches for an electric dipole moment (EDM) of the electron. These are table-top experiments that have the potential to rule out large classes of beyond-the-Standard-Model physics without using any multi-billion-dollar accelerators, and I think that’s extremely cool.<\/p>\n

There’s also always a chance that somebody will make a dramatic step forward in the quantum computing\/ quantum information field. A demonstration of a real system (DWave’s thing doesn’t count) for running quantum algorithms with error correction using several
\nentangled qbits would be an amazing development, and I’d love to be spending time blogging about that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tomorrow: Fear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little while ago, the Corporate Masters asked us to answer a couple of questions for possible inclusion in the first ’08 issue of Seed. I originally posted this back in November, but got asked to take it down because the issue was hush-hush. The street date for the magazine in question was this week,… Continue reading Dorky Poll: Scientific Hopes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","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=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}