Quantum Sense
I've been bouncing around an idea in my head of starting up a second blog, a group blog devoted entirely to Quantum Computation. The idea would be to despin the quantum news in order to help the layman understand the true state of progress without trying to convince people that every incremental step is the next revolution in computing. It would also help readers keep up withthe real news in quantum computation, looking at important advances which appear in the scientific journals but which lack the proper PR department to impress the MSM.
The problem is, aside from my lack of time to take on yet another project, the fact that I lack the expertise to effectively do this. I am, as I have said in the past, not a physicist, theoretical or otherwise, but an engineer who has done experimental physics, and I'm not even in the field of quantum computation anymore. Thus the need for this to be a group blog, where my role would primarily be Token Engineer and Substitute Layman, trying to get the real experts to explain it in terms the rest of us can understand. Of course, to really do this, I would need to recruit real Quantum Computation experts, of whom I know a couple. I'm not sure they'd be interested--some of them are bloggers, but they may rather write their own blogs than participate in a group one. If one of them were doing the job, I could just link to them and not worry about it, but some prefer to use their blogs for non-technical things, while others are way too technical, and most of them are not very regular bloggers. We'll see.
The problem is, aside from my lack of time to take on yet another project, the fact that I lack the expertise to effectively do this. I am, as I have said in the past, not a physicist, theoretical or otherwise, but an engineer who has done experimental physics, and I'm not even in the field of quantum computation anymore. Thus the need for this to be a group blog, where my role would primarily be Token Engineer and Substitute Layman, trying to get the real experts to explain it in terms the rest of us can understand. Of course, to really do this, I would need to recruit real Quantum Computation experts, of whom I know a couple. I'm not sure they'd be interested--some of them are bloggers, but they may rather write their own blogs than participate in a group one. If one of them were doing the job, I could just link to them and not worry about it, but some prefer to use their blogs for non-technical things, while others are way too technical, and most of them are not very regular bloggers. We'll see.
