QUANTUM: The Exhibition - quantum at the museum

Angela Olano, Martin Laforest, Tobi Day-Hamilton

Diederik Aerts

The present volume is part of the 'Worldviews, Science and Us' series of proceedings. It contains selected contributions on the subject of bridging knowledge and its implications for our perspectives of the world. This volume also represents the proceedings of the interdisciplinary stream of the international workshop (Part 1) Times of Entanglement, 21-22 September 2010 at the Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai, People's Republic of China in the context of the Shanghai World Expo 2010 and related cutting-edge investigations in the quantum paradigm from discussion panels organized by the Leo Apostel Center for Interdisciplinary studies within the framework of the 'Research on the Construction of Integrating Worldviews' research community set up by the Flanders Fund for Scientific Research. Further information about this research community and a full list of the associated international research centers can be found at http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/res/worldviews/

Carol Anne Fischer

Elisabeth Lahr‐Nilles

Abstract Der 100. Geburtstag der Quantenphysik ist auch der Anlass für die Ausstellung „hheute”︁ im Deutschen Museum Bonn.

The 300 or so scientists, journalists and entrepreneurs who gathered at the Computer History Museum in California's Silicon Valley on 13 February had, on the face of it, come to see a man solve a Sudoku puzzle on a laptop. Why did they bother turning up, you might ask. The reason was that the puzzle was apparently not being solved by the laptop, but by another computer, connected over the Internet, that was sitting in a lab in Vancouver. This second computer was no ordinary digital device but, according to the company D-Wave carrying out the demonstration, the "world's first commercially viable quantum computer".

J. Manuel, John W. Murphy