{"id":9669,"date":"2014-11-10T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9669"},"modified":"2014-11-10T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:32:11","slug":"eureka-quantum-crosswords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/11\/10\/eureka-quantum-crosswords\/","title":{"rendered":"Eureka: Quantum Crosswords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new book comes out one month from yesterday, or four weeks from tomorrow. Of course, yesterday was Sunday, and tomorrow&#8217;s a federal holiday, both lousy times for promotional posts, so I&#8217;ll drop this in today instead. Here&#8217;s a promotional video I put together, about how the history of quantum mechanics can be compared to working a crossword puzzle:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CF2HyCYJrFU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is basically <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2013\/10\/09\/quantum-crosswords-my-tednyc-talk\/\">the talk I gave at TED@NYC last year<\/a>, done <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2014\/10\/13\/one-does-not-simply-science-into-mordor\/\">in front of a green screen<\/a> with slides edited in behind me for that <cite>An Inconvenient Truth<\/cite> vibe (Nobel committee, take note&#8230;). With some bonus cute kid photos and an explicit reference to the book, which isn&#8217;t allowed at TED things.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got another of these ready to upload, and will be shooting a third at some point, to give you a couple more examples of the central argument and some further cool science. If you like it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eureka-Discovering-Your-Inner-Scientist\/dp\/0465074960\">I&#8217;ve got a whole book worth of this you can buy<\/a>. Well, pre-order at this point, but four weeks from tomorrow, look for it wherever books are sold&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new book comes out one month from yesterday, or four weeks from tomorrow. Of course, yesterday was Sunday, and tomorrow&#8217;s a federal holiday, both lousy times for promotional posts, so I&#8217;ll drop this in today instead. Here&#8217;s a promotional video I put together, about how the history of quantum mechanics can be compared to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/11\/10\/eureka-quantum-crosswords\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eureka: Quantum Crosswords<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,680,80,7,37,132,11,52,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book_writing","category-eureka","category-history_of_science","category-physics","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-science","category-science_books","category-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669","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=9669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}