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...incomplete knowledge and inability to divine the future. This is the very motivation for physics in the first place. And the word forms the core of perhaps the most accurate and beautiful conception of poetics—John Keats’s “Negative Capability??: “when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.” I believe that herein rests the trap of “quantum literature”: the purposeful conflation of Keats’s and Heisenberg?...
...what makes the system special, Sircar wrote in an e-mail. The CrimsonGridBGL’s enormous processing ability—4,096 processors performing 11 trillion floating-point calculations per second, using five times less power than a traditional computer cluster with the same capability??will enable it to perform complicated simulations. “There are natural phenomena and processes which cannot be studied by direct observation or experimentation,” Watson Professor of Computer Science Michael O. Rabin wrote in an e-mail, referring to the need for computer modeling the Blue Gene executes...
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