Chris Ferrie

Quantum Storytime with Chris Ferrie Join children's author, science educator and quantum physicist Chris Ferrie on a journey through quantum physics. Jump into the theme of National Science Week 2025, ‘Decoding the Universe’, with Chri...

Melbourne! I’m in town next week 🥳

13 Aug — Quantum Storytime (Quantum Futures) & Lunch + Learn (FB IDEAs)
16 Aug — Storytime + activities (The Sun Bookshop)

Bring your curiosity & come say hi!

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Quokkas aren't real

Spend 15 minutes on instrumentalism and save them from 15 years of confusion while blocking false ontological indoctrination.

New preprint on arXiv 🚀

Link: scirate.com/arxiv/2507.2...

We present a practical step-by-step guideline to determine whether a procedure that claims to circumvent exponential concentration actually works in practice.

See the following 🧵 for more details.

People are asking where the idea for Quokka came from...

DIY poo transplant leads to 'miraculous' mental health change After 18 years with bipolar 1 disorder, an Australian woman's life has been changed by a poo transplant from her partner.

Is this the Florida Man of "in mice"?

Something happened in one mouse and he thought the *opposite* might work in humans.

I mean, good for her, but "don't try this at home" should have been the headline.

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I'm in Melbourne for Science Week!

Join me The Sun Bookshop some science-themed reading and activities.

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TIL the German translation of Cosmic Bullshit is more Cosmic Bullshit.

Australians. Crowd source time.

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“Go to the edge of quantum physics with GPT” and start free-associating without doing the math or proposing experiments, you’re not doing physics; you’re generating science-fiction brainstorming. That can be fun, but until someone does the hard yards, it lives in the “vibe sci-fi” bucket.

Professor Donna Strickland Public Lecture The AIP, DST, EQUS, QUBIC, QUT and Griffith are thrilled to welcome Professor Donna Strickland to Brisbane on 14 July 2025 for the Quantum Year National Tour.

Tonight in Brisbane – public lecture and fireside chat with Nobel Prize laureate Prof Donna Strickland who will share insights into her pioneering research, the future of laser physics, and her incredible journey to the Nobel Prize. 🧪⚛️

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Visit your local bookstore. They are super knowledgeable and you'll be supporting local business.

On July 17-18 a small symposium "Dreams of Quantum" will be held in honor of David DiVincenzo's work and retirement at RWTH Aachen. The event can be attended via Zoom by all. Information about the program of speakers & the Zoom link can be found at www.quantuminfo.physik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/~bmmwed

POV: running your first quantum program at www.quokkacomputing.com/qasm

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The founders would have been thrilled with what they could have resolved with a double-well potential! 😉

Unpopular opinion: everyone uses daily what any college degree ought to confer.

Hey Perth, don't let the weather get you down. Come out tomorrow evening and laugh along at some quantum shenanigans.

🗓️ When: Wed 9 Jul, 6 – 7:15 pm AWST
📍 Where: Ross Lecture Theatre, Physics Bldg, UWA

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Apparently, hypocrisy is not un-Australian I arrived in Australia a decade ago, clutching a visa and armed with rosy assurances from every Aussie I’d met back home in Canada. These…

Have any other Australians noticed surcharges slowly creeping up in volume and value?

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Depends on your definition of "closer"...

Bertlmann's socks.

I’m a physicist by trade, not by training, and that matters What a “stranger” in physics sees from within

My permanent reply to the next physicist chiming in with "that's not a 'real' quantum computer."

What a “stranger” in physics sees from within ⤵️

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We’re updating our pricing model! Greetings, dear valued readers!

Exciting news!

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Pretty rude to imply Timothée Chalamet can't act as well as his lookalike.

Sounds like something we should have discussed over a beer then...

I honestly don't know what compelled you to reply, and why.

Please (sincerely) indulge me.

What this exercise ought to show you is that definitions are vague by necessity. Context must be supplied on use.

Otherwise, the endgame of your path is everything in its own category, with a label that can't even fit on the box.

(Algorithms are quantum when they require [abstract] qubits.)

False equivalence. The entire system (doing the computation) includes you. And yes, people doing computation with pen and paper are called computers.

It seems we've reach agreement.