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Taking Measure

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Scott Glancy

Scott Glancy is a theoretical physicist in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division in NIST's Information Technology Laboratory. His current research interests are in quantum information theory, especially the analysis of data from experiments testing quantum foundations or demonstrating quantum computation protocols. He teaches a middle-school Bible study class, and his favorite superhero is the Silver Surfer.

Local Realism, Bell’s Inequality, and T-Shirts: An Entangled Tale

April 30, 2018

For this past Christmas my wife, Rebecca, gave me a T-shirt that says "Quantum mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of." This is an allusion to the book The

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