Comments on: Quantum steampunk is heading to bookstores!

By: Happy 200th birthday, Carnot’s theorem! | Quantum Frontiers

Happy 200th birthday, Carnot’s theorem! | Quantum Frontiers — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 17:32:32 +0000

[…] artist Todd Cahill beautifully illustrated the Carnot cycle for my book. The gas performs useful work because a teapot sits atop the piston. Pushing the piston upward, the […]

By: Sculpting quantum steampunk | Quantum Frontiers

Sculpting quantum steampunk | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:12:25 +0000

[…] 2020, many of us logged experiences that we’d never anticipated. I wrote a nonfiction book and got married outside the Harvard Faculty Club (because nobody was around to […]

By: Announcing the quantum-steampunk creative-writing course! | Quantum Frontiers

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:07:13 +0000

[…] had never occurred to me, and I hesitated over it. Quantum-steampunk blog posts, I could handle. A book, I could handle. Even a short-story contest, I’d handled. But a course? The idea yawned like the […]

By: Colliding the familiar and the anti-familiar at CERN | Quantum Frontiers

Colliding the familiar and the anti-familiar at CERN | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:31:37 +0000

[…] I visited CERN last November for Sparks!, an annual public-outreach event. The evening’s speakers and performers offer perspectives on a scientific topic relevant to CERN. This year’s event highlighted quantum technologies. Physicist Sofia Vallecorsa described CERN’s Quantum Technology Initiative, and IBM philosopher Mira Wolf-Bauwens discussed ethical implications of quantum technologies. (Yes, you read that correctly: “IBM philosopher.”) Dancers Wenchi Su and I-Fang Lin presented an audiovisual performance, Rachel Maze elucidated government policies, and I spoke about quantum steampunk. […]

By: Let the great world spin | Quantum Frontiers

Let the great world spin | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:31:37 +0000

[…] rest of the museum could model in an advertisement for steampunk. I found automata, models of the steam engines that triggered the Industrial Revolution, and a […]

By: Eight highlights from publishing a science book for the general public | Quantum Frontiers

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 01:01:48 +0000

[…] faced the question again and again this year, as my book Quantum Steampunk hit bookshelves in April. Two responses suggest […]

By: A quantum-steampunk photo shoot | Quantum Frontiers

A quantum-steampunk photo shoot | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 01:13:31 +0000

[…] as Quantum Frontiers regulars know, is a genre of science fiction. It combines futuristic technologies, such as time machines and […]

By: Quantum Frontiers: Quantum Estuary – The Qubit Report

Quantum Frontiers: Quantum Estuary – The Qubit Report — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:53:51 +0000

[…] many-body quantum physicists to quantum thermodynamics and vice versa. (Quantum thermodynamicists re-envision thermodynamics, the Victorian science of energy, for quantum, small, information-processing, and […]

By: Carol Ryles

Carol Ryles — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:41:36 +0000

this looks very intriguing, I will take a look!

By: Quantum estuary | Quantum Frontiers

Quantum estuary | Quantum Frontiers — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 23:57:31 +0000