Since retiring from Boeing (Seattle) in 2016, I have returned to more academic, less engineering-oriented pursuits. These include quantum information primarily, but also related math/physics topics like general relativity, non-linear phenomena, chaos, synchronicity, entropy (both information and thermodynamic and their relationships) and others. My first serious foray since retiring has been to spend about 5 years reading and studying papers on Bell’s Theorem. As a result, I have published a paper (see Publications page) in the International Journal of Quantum Foundations (“The Role of (Non)Contextuality in Bell’s Theorems from the Perspective of an Operational Modeling Framework“, Vol. 8, Issue 2, pp. 31-116, Mar 26, 2022), currently awaiting comments. After that, I plan on moving on to one or the more of the topics of interest already mentioned. At this point, my main interest seems to be quantum computing and information. I have taken the Wolfram University Webinar on quantum computing, and have started experimenting with the QC functionality inside Mathematica, obtained by importing the required functions from the Function Repository. Two of the goals (more or less vague at the moment) are
- To extend my work on contextuality (in the framework of hidden variable models) and to using it as a quantum computing resource (this seems to be a hot topic right now), and
- To explore how this can all be connected to the groundbreaking approach of Wolfram’s Physic Project, namely, can these ideas be encapsulated into the Multi-Way Systems formulation.
I have also been attending “Math Mondays” and “Physics Fridays” at the local Kenyon College, where I was an undergraduate many years ago. This helps keep me current in the topics of interest among today’s students and faculty. Fortunately they tolerate old-timers like me to come in off the street and listen to the fantastic inspirational presentations. As just one example, Kenyon students and faculty have made significant contributions to the recent successes in gravitational wave discoveries, by analyzing data from the LIGO project among other tasks.
And as you can see from the picture above, one of my modes of relaxation is to participate in autocross as part of the Buckeye Miata Club.
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