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passionate and personal account of the early days of quantum information and quantum computing, this unique book is a collection of more than 500 letters between the author and many of the founders of these intriguing fields. Christopher A. Fuchs is one of the most penetrating modern thinkers on the philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics. This remarkable book follows his journey as he comes to grips with the quantum world. It contains correspondence with Charles Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Rolf Landauer, N. David Mermin, Michael Nielsen, Asher Peres, John Preskill, Abner Shimony, William Wootters, Anton Zeilinger, and many others. Filled with diary entries, anecdotes, historical selections, and research ideas, this book will fascinate physicists, philosophers, and historians of science.
passionate account of the early days of quantum information and computing from one of the most penetrating modern thinkers.
Advance praise: 'I'm delighted that what Chris Fuchs calls his 'samizdat'. has finally been published in book form. I read the samizdat as a beginning graduate student, and it changed my career. reading Chris's letters made me feel, for the first time, like the great conversation of Bohr, Einstein, and other luminaries in the 1920s was still going on today.' Scott Aaronson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
'Anyone interested in grabbing a front seat to a new way to see quantum theory, as debated by the author and luminaries of quantum information and quantum foundations, will find this book hard to put down. As a bonus the book brims over with an overwhelming sense of joy and wonder at our quantum universe that, when combined with a wicked sense of humor, will no doubt make this collection of correspondences a classic document of the now blossoming age of quantum information science.' Dave Bacon, University of Washington
'Full of humor, vivid characters, and intellectual drama. A window into physics in the process of being untangled, this rich email tapestry is the fin de si猫cle testament to Heisenberg's dictum that 'science is rooted in conversations'. My much-annotated and coffee-stained copy sits not on my bookshelf but on my desk, and I still stumble over new delights.' Louisa Gilder, author of The Age of Entanglement
'Nobody today writing about quantum mechanics combines poetry and analysis to better effect than Chris Fuchs. The death of letters as a high literary form brought about by the telephone turns out to have been only a lengthy coma - a 20th century aberration. The thought-provoking pages that follow, which can either be read like a Nabokov novel, or dipped into from time to time, like a collection of poems or short stories, gloriously provide a 21st century demonstration that the art form is again alive and well - and also, of course, that there remain profound questions to ask and to strive to answer about the real meaning of quantum mechanics.' N. David Mermin, from the Foreword
'No-one has done more to articulate the information-theoretical interpretation of quantum theory than Fuchs. For both physicists and philosophers alike, this book will entertain, inform and almost certainly challenge.' Gerard Milburn, University of Queensland
'In this marvellous collection of letters we get to watch over Chris Fuchs's shoulder as he wrestles with one of the great open scientific problems of today: how should we understand quantum theory?. It's also a pleasure to read, personable, funny, and with a stimulating turn of phrase on nearly every page.' Michael Nielsen, co-author of Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
'Anyone fascinated by the mysteries of the quantum world is sure to be enlightened and entertained by this extraordinary collection, in which Chris wrestles with some of the deepest questions about how we describe Nature. You have never read a physics book like this one.' John Preskill, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
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Table Of Contents:
Foreword xxiii
N. David Mermin
Introduction to the Cambridge University Press Edition xxv
Introduction to the Original ArXiv.org Posting lii
Disclaimers liii
Acknowledgements liii
John Preskill's Challenge liv
The Paulian Idea lv
1 Letters to David Baker 1(9)
22 July 1996, "Noodles of Nothing" 1(1)
27 July 1996, "Life on Long Island" 1(2)
03 August 1996, "Lonely Jazz" 3(1)
17 August 1996, "More Meaning" 4(1)
19 August 1996, "Self Promotion" 5(1)
01 September 1997, "Mo' Investigative Work" 5(1)
21 February 1998, "Home a Short While" 5(1)
02 March 1998, "Long Finicky Flight" 5(2)
14 April 1998, and to Herb Bernstein, "Hawking on Evolution" 7(1)
17 May 1998, "The Electronic Itch" 7(1)
14 August 1999, "Rampant Repine" 8(1)
28 July 2000, "The Role of Registered Phenomena" 9(1)
2 Letters to Howard Baker 10(10)
29 September 1997, "Quantum Information Questions" 10(4)
02 October 1997, "Next Round" 14(5)
06 October 1997, "49th Parallel" 19(1)
3 Letters to Howard Barnum 20(8)
02 June 1999, "Please Do" 20(1)
17 June 1999, "So Slow" 20(1)
04 July 1999, "No Microphysical Reality?" 21(1)
18 August 1999, "Modalities" 21(1)
30 August 1999, "It's All About Schmoz" 22(2)
05 September 1999, "New Schmoz Cola" 24(4)
4 Letters to Paul Benioff 28(10)
09 April 1996, "Randomness" 28(1)
Paul's Reply 28(1)
15 April 1996, "More Randomness" 29(1)
Paul's Reply 29(1)
30 April 1998, "Randomness Again" 30(1)
Paul's Reply 30(1)
10 June 1999, "Definitive List?" 31(2)
Paul's Reply 33(1)
19 March 2000, "Probability Validation" 33(1)
20 March 2000, "Small Addendum" 34(1)
20 October 2000, "Not Instructions, but Information" 35(3)
5 Letters to Charlie Bennett 38(6)
25 December 1997, "Bennett Festschrift" 38(1)
05 May 1998, and to many others, "Probability Does Not Exist" 39(1)
07 December 1998, and to the other teleporters, "Swedish Bikini Team" 39(1)
10 December 1998, "More Swedish Bikini Team" 40(1)
10 December 1998, "More Bikinis" 41(1)
Charlie's Reply 41(1)
10 December 1998, "500 Swedish Irregular Verbs" 41(1)
13 January 1999, and to many others, "Emma Jane Fuchs" 42(1)
10 February 1999, "Computational Power of N w/o E??" 42(1)
05 June 1999, "Emma Jane" 42(1)
27 November 2000, "An Emoticon" 43(1)
6 Letters to Herb Bernstein 44(37)
25 December 1996, "Reality Steaks" 44(1)
17 February 1997, "Prophetic Herberts" 44(1)
Herb's Reply 45(1)
23 February 1997, "Herbertic Realities" 45(1)
27 March 1997, "Consistent Herb" 45(1)
29 March 1997, "More Reality" 46(1)
07 April 1997, "Howling Quanta" 47(1)
05 June 1997, "Dreams of a More Ethereal Quantum" 48(1)
04 August 1997, "The Nielsbohricon" 49(1)
12 October 1997, "Reality as Realty" 50(1)
13 November 1997, "Tria Juncta In Uno" 51(1)
23 November 1997, "Sunday Baudrillard" 51(1)
28 November 1997, "Muddling Through Reality" 51(1)
10 December 1997, "Reality Alert I" 52(1)
10 December 1997, "List of Sins" 52(1)
27 December 1997, "Reality Alert II" 53(1)
29 December 1997, "Cradle of Reality" 53(1)
04 January 1998, "Bohr, Bayesians, and Bernsteins" 53(1)
14 January 1998, "Quote-A-Day" 54(1)
25 January 1998, "Shame Dance" 55(1)
02 March 1998, "Early Morning Japan" 55(1)
08 March 1998, "The Soul of Daibutsu" 55(1)
29 March 1998, "Philosophical Purgation" 55(1)
02 January 1999, and to Greg Comer, "A New Year's Toast" 56(2)
03 January 1999, "Mary and Banville" 58(1)
24 April 1999, "Genetic Genesis" 59(1)
08 May 1999, "A Fleck of Quantization" 59(12)
A Few of Fleck's Thoughts (with Annotation) 61(9)
The Denkkollektiv and the Quantum 70(1)
15 May 1999, "Tsk, Tsk" 71(1)
22 May 1999, "Reality in Lottery" 71(1)
02 August 1999, "Epiphenomena Chez Dyer" 72(4)
17 August 1999, "A Bernstein Off the Earth?" 76(1)
14 September 1999, "A Fleck of Fleck" 77(1)
01 September 2000, "The Allure of Texas" 78(1)
09 September 2000, "More Fleckulation" 79(1)
26 October 2000, "Activating or Catalyzing?" 79(1)
29 November 2000, "Anecdote" 80(1)
7 Letters to Doug Bilodeau 81(9)
22 August 1999, "Your Article" 81(1)
28 August 1999, "Not Much" 81(1)
Doug's Reply 82(1)
06 September 1999, "Labor Day Lounging" 82(1)
06 September 1999, "Another Request" 83(1)
05 November 1999, "Setting the Initial Condition" 83(3)
Doug's Reply 86(1)
21 March 2000, "You Might Enjoy" 86(1)
22 March 2000, "Wheeler" 87(1)
15 April 2000, "Pierce Cringes" 87(1)
08 June 2000, "Resend?" 88(2)
Doug's Reply 88(2)
8 Letters to Gilles Brassard 90(15)
18 November 1997, "Bolt from the Blue" 90(1)
31 August 1999, "Subliminal Messages" 90(1)
23 January 2000, "I See Why Bit Commitment!" 91(1)
22 March 2000, "It from Bit" 92(1)
15 May 2000, to the attendees of the Montreal Meeting, "Problem Set Coming" 93(1)
15 May 2000, "Problem Set Based on Information-Disturbance Foundation Quest" 93(1)
A Some Concrete Problems 94(7)
Problem #1 Pre-Gleason, or Why Orthogonality? 94(3)
Problem #2 Wootters Revamped with POVMs 97(2)
Problem #3 Post-Gleason, or Should I Think von Neumann Is Special? 99(1)
Problem #4 Where Did Bayes Go? 99(2)
B Some Not-So Concrete Problems 101(1)
Proto-Problem #1 Computing Power vs. Error Correctability 101(1)
Proto-Problem #2 Entanglement Monogamy and Schrodinger's Insight 101(1)
Proto-Problem #3 Down with Beables, Up with Dingables 101(1)
Proto-Problem #4 Intrinsic Characterization of Complete Positivity 102(1)
Proto-Problem #5 Doing Gleason with Algebraic Numbers 102(1)
Proto-Problem #6 Challenge to Everettistas 102(1)
17 June 2000, and to Montreal Meeting participants, "Memories of Montreal" 102(2)
26 July 2000, "Interaction without Interactoids?" 104(1)
9 Letters to Jeffrey Bub 105(12)
03 April 2000, "Foundations in the Light of Information" 105(1)
30 September 2000, "Commit the Bit!" 106(3)
Jeff's Reply 108(1)
30 October 2000, "Curiosity" 109(1)
Jeff's Reply 110(1)
10 December 2000, "The Oyster and the Quantum" 110(4)
Jeff's Reply 114(1)
11 January 2001, "Thanks" 114(1)
14 January 2001, "Barnum and KS" 114(1)
18 January 2001, "The Short Answer" 115(2)
10 Letters to Carlton Caves 117(33)
08 April 1996, "Hartle/Coleman Comments" 117(5)
12 April 1996, `Topping Math" 122(3)
15 April 1996, "No More Math" 125(1)
21 December 1997, "Falling Off the Earth" 126(11)
Carl's Replies 126(1)
The Structure of Quantum Information 127(1)
I Orientation 127(1)
II Research Proposal 128(3)
III Wider Seas 131(2)
IV Summary 133(1)
V References 133(4)
22 December 1997, "Bohr was a Bayesian" 137(1)
20 September 1998, "Dropping In" 137(2)
Carl's Reply 138(1)
24 September 1998, "Emerging Reality" 139(1)
27 January 1999, "Bohmian Computers" 139(1)
19 February 1999, "A Bright Young Man" 139(1)
02 March 1999, "Caves History" 139(1)
03 May 1999, "Complex H Space" 140(1)
10 June 1999, "Gleasonization" 140(1)
10 September 1999, "The Dangers of Probabilismo" 141(1)
12 September 1999, "CPM Extreme Points" 142(1)
23 September 1999, "The Ontological Tide" 142(1)
23 September 1999, "The Ontological Rip Tide" 142(1)
27 September 1999, "Cleaning the Plate" and "Last Scrap" 143(1)
24 March 2000, "Title and Abstract?" 143(1)
30 June 2000, "Greece" 144(4)
Carl's Preply 144(4)
07 September 2000, "Critical Letters and Reply" 148(1)
13 November 2000, "Bush vs. Bohr" 148(1)
01 February 2001, "An Ed/Ellen Jaynesian" 149(1)
01 February 2001, "My Jaynes" 149(1)
26 February 2001, "Death of a Salesman" 149(1)
11 Letters to Greg Comer 150(40)
14 February 1995, "Turtle Wax" 150(1)
04 March 1995, "Saturday Slush" 151(1)
07 March 1995, "Please, Please No More!" 151(1)
27 January 1996, "Philo" 152(1)
20 February 1996, "The Mont-Royal Sweats" 153(1)
27 February 1996, "Kant Cola" 154(1)
06 March 1996, "Rub Me" 155(1)
26 March 1996, "Savagery" 156(1)
27 March 1996, "Strange Comment" 156(1)
01 April 1996, "Puppy Scoops" 156(1)
04 May 1996, "You May Enjoy" 157(1)
19 July 1996, "Old Moods" 157(1)
16 August 1996, "Hot Pavement and Slushy QM" 158(1)
18 August 1996, "Morning Thoughts" 159(1)
29 August 1996, "Gerry Niewood on Saxophone" 159(1)
01 September 1996, and to David Baker, "The Iconostasis" 159(1)
Greg's Reply 160(1)
03 September 1996, "A Procrastinating Plunk" 160(1)
31 May 1997, "Long Day" 160(1)
09 June 1997, "Dictionaries and Their Problems" 161(1)
23 September 1997, "Airy Nothing" 162(1)
12 November 1997, "Mad Girl's Lovesong" 163(1)
19 November 1997, "Poesy of the Quantum" 163(1)
25 November 1997, "Flatt and Scruggs" 164(1)
17 December 1997, "It's a Wonderful Life" 164(1)
04 January 1998, "Lazy Weekend" 164(1)
Greg's Reply 165(1)
19 January 1998, "Happy Quotes" 165(2)
26 January 1998, "Lunch Break" 167(1)
07 February 1998, "Getting Nerves" 167(1)
03 March 1998, "Japanese Kitchen" 168(1)
31 March 1998, "What a Lunchtime Bohr" 168(1)
16 April 1998, "Just the Way It Had To Be" 169(1)
05 May 1998, "Expected" 169(1)
27 May 1998, "My Head, My Head" 169(1)
18 July 1998, "Short Note" 170(1)
28 July 1998, "Macaroni" 170(1)
07 September 1998, "The Quotable Pauli" 171(1)
09 October 1998, "Billiards and the Eight" 171(1)
17 November 1998, "A Break in Pace" 172(1)
17 November 1998, "Heresy!" 172(1)
05 April 1999, "Pasadena Visit" 173(1)
11 April 1999, "One I Like" 173(1)
22 April 1999, "Fuchsian Genesis" 174(1)
27 June 1999, "Raining Down in Cambridge" 175(1)
28 August 1999, "No Podunks Here" 176(1)
25 November 1999, "Thanks and Giving" 177(1)
17 December 1999, "Trinity" 177(1)
23 January 2000, "Darling Quotes" 178(1)
25 January 2000, "Fear" 179(1)
27 January 2000, "Chili Cheese Fries" 179(1)
07 February 2000, "The Fine Line" 179(1)
20 February 2000, "Rabbits on the Moon" 180(1)
25 June 2000, "Waxing Surfboards" 180(1)
28 July 2000, "Great Quote" 181(1)
10 August 2000, "Heavy Information" 181(1)
11 August 2000, "The Mathematics of Experiment" 182(1)
18 September 2000, "A Non-Randy Non-Bugger" 182(2)
06 October 2000, "The Evolution of Thought" 184(1)
14 October 2000, "On the Mark" 185(1)
14 October 2000, "More Evolution" 186(1)
16 October 2000, "More Linearity" 186(1)
16 October 2000, "Three References" 187(1)
29 October 2000, "Poincare Singularities" 187(1)
27 November 2000, "A Lesson in Physics?" 188(1)
15 January 2001, "Good Turns of Phrase" 188(2)
12 Letters to Charles Enz 190(2)
12 June 1999, "Interest in Pauli" 190(1)
21 August 1999, "One More Article?" 190(1)
09 June 2000, "Another Request" 191(1)
13 Letters to Henry Folse 192(6)
17 January 2001, "First Contact" 192(1)
07 February 2001, "Heartfelt Thanks" 192(1)
16 February 2001, "Is It Complete?" 193(1)
09 March 2001, "The Right Choice" 194(2)
14 March 2001, "The Archive Again" 196(2)
14 Letters to Bob Griffiths 198(7)
10 February 1997, "Sunday Afternoons and Consistent Histories" 198(7)
15 Letters to Adrian Kent 205(5)
30 August 1998, "Desiderata" 205(1)
30 August 1998, "Well Look At That" 206(1)
02 September 1998, "Vague and Vagary" 206(1)
17 January 1999, "Cigar and the Greeks" 207(1)
20 January 1999, "Clarity" 207(1)
20 January 1999, "Atomic Souls" 208(1)
03 February 1999, "Noumenal Mental Atoms" 208(1)
05 February 2001, "The Eerie Parallel" 209(1)
16 Letters to Rolf Landauer 210(5)
15 February 1998, "Law Without Law ... Or Something Like That" 210(1)
Rolf's Reply 210(1)
06 July 1998, "Evolution and Physics" 211(2)
Rolf's Reply 212(1)
28 July 1998, "Precision" 213(1)
Rolf's Reply 213(1)
08 October 1998, "Info is Physical" 213(2)
Rolf's Reply 213(2)
17 Letters to Hideo Mabuchi 215(2)
22 November 1997, "Martha White and Her Flour" 215(1)
05 October 1998, "Oh Magic Eight Ball" 215(1)
01 July 2000, "Destinkifiers" 216(1)
18 Letters to David Mermin 217(57)
18 September 1996, "Theorem II" 217(1)
13 October 1997, "Caltech and Propensities" 218(1)
09 December 1997, "The Philosophy of `Nothing-More'-ism" 218(1)
10 December 1997, "Deconstructing Ithaca" 218(1)
10 December 1997, "Game and Format" 219(1)
14 December 1997, "An Idle Thought" 219(1)
17 December 1997, "Exercise in Anti-Lucidity" 220(1)
10-17 December 1997, "Big Bowl of Anti-Lucidite" 220(11)
A My Outlook 220(1)
B Teleported Goulash 221(1)
I Immediate Goulash 221(2)
II Big Bowls of Goulash 223(8)
C Pause 231(1)
07 January 1998, "Cloud-Cuckoo-Land" 231(2)
15 January 1998, "Buttered Toast" 233(2)
15 January 1998, "Thanks" 235(1)
15 February 1998, "Landau, Lifshitz, Correlata, and Pauli" 235(1)
14 March 1998, "Pauli in Ithaca" 236(1)
29 March 1998, "Ithacan Monadology" 236(1)
17 April 1998, "References" 237(1)
17 April 1998, "How Do I Sleep?" 238(1)
20 April 1998, "Socrates and Rosenfeld" 239(1)
21 April 1998, "C Hunkies" 240(1)
07 May 1998, "A Rug and A Sweep" 240(1)
08 May 1998, "A Bug in the Soup" 241(1)
04 September 1998, "The Bohrazine Shuffle" 242(2)
08 September 1998, "I'll Bohr You to Tears" 244(6)
09 September 1998, "Unbohrlievable!" 250(1)
07 October 1998, "Carnap" 251(1)
08 October 1998, "Oh Mighty Mermin" 251(1)
13 December 1998, and to several others, "Little Historical Point" 252(1)
David's Reply 252(1)
13 December 1998, "Missing Something" 253(1)
13 December 1998, and to several others, "I Whig-ed Out" 253(1)
27 December 1998, "Executive Summary" 254(1)
David's Reply 254(1)
11 January 1999, "Chewin' the Fat" 255(1)
11 January 1999, "Chewin' the Cud" 255(1)
17 January 1999, "My Homework" 255(1)
21 January 1999, "Schrodingerization" 256(1)
21 January 1999, "More Stupendous Literature Man" 256(1)
28 January 1999, "The Propaganda Cocktail" 256(1)
31 January 1999, "Schrodinger Note" 257(1)
21 May 1999, "A Bohr, a Door, and a ... " 257(1)
08 June 1999, "I'm Not Alone" 257(1)
13 June 1999, "Crackpots in Quantum Land" 258(1)
15 October 1999, "In Transit" 258(1)
15 October 1999, "More In Transit" 258(1)
16 December 1999, "Peierls and Commutivity" 259(1)
17 December 1999, "Reality of the Symbol" 260(1)
26 January 2000, "Note #2
Foundations in Montreal" 261(1)
20 March 2000, "Invitation Coming Finally" 262(1)
23 March 2000, "Can You Complete This?" 262(1)
03 April 2000, "Gleason, For the Record" 263(1)
05 April 2000, "Commutivity" 263(1)
David's Reply 264(1)
05 April 2000, "Pauli Understood Entanglement" 264(1)
06 April 2000, "Mist of the Future" 265(1)
20 July 2000, "Zing!" 265(2)
20 July 2000, "Schrodinger from a Different Angle" 267(1)
23 July 2000, "Great Garrett Quote" 267(4)
05 October 2000, "Bad Gleason Mornings" 271(1)
12 October 2000, "Turning Heads ... At Least One" 271(1)
03 November 2000, "Do You Know?" 272(1)
23 April 2001, "New Posting" 272(1)
David's First Reply 272(1)
David's Second Reply 272(1)
26 April 2001, "Fire of the Soul" 273(1)
19 Letters to David Meyer 274(2)
23 February 1999, "From Gleason to Pitowsky" 274(1)
11 May 1999, "SD and KS" and "Even More Relevant" 274(1)
13 November 1999, "What Did vN Not Know?" 275(1)
13 November 1999, "A Couple More Things" 275(1)
20 Letters to Jeff Nicholson 276(3)
06 June 1996, "Cyclic Never-Endings" 276(1)
22 August 1996, "Laws of Thought" 276(1)
22 August 1996, "Plagiarists" 276(1)
09 October 1997, "Pickin', Scratchin', and Grinnin'" 277(1)
23 November 1997, "Long Note on a Sunday Morning" 277(1)
10 March 1999, "Schnockerization" 277(2)
21 Letters to Michael Nielsen 279(8)
22 February 1996, "Goo-Losh" 279(1)
18 March 1996, "The Commitments" 279(2)
01 April 1996, "Mo' Better Sophistry" 281(1)
04 September 1996, "One Mo' Book" 282(1)
16 May 1999, "Purifications" 282(1)
23 August 1999, "A Convergence of Sorts" 283(2)
25 August 1999, "Late Night Threads" 285(1)
14 July 2000, "Quantum Theory Does Need an Interpretation" 285(1)
09 August 2000, "Big Red Xs" 286(1)
22 Letters to Asher Peres 287(39)
05 June 1997, "Painting My Stripes" 287(1)
16 October 1997, "Royal Order of Recalcitrant Positivists" 288(1)
17 October 1997, "Energy ... Really" 288(1)
20 October 1997, "A Little More Reality" 289(10)
Harsh Criticisms 289(1)
Typos and Englos 290(1)
Foods for Thought [sic] 290(9)
22 October 1997, "Honesty" 299(1)
23 October 1997, "Tyche or Moira?" 300(1)
15 December 1997, "Hay-Peres Comments" 300(1)
29 January 1998, "Strange Surprise" 301(1)
05 April 1998, "Other Things" 301(1)
01 December 1998, "Here Comes the Judge" 302(7)
16 December 1998, "Nonlinear CPMs" 309(1)
26 December 1998, "The Deep Intervention" 310(1)
08 April 1999, "Delayed Entanglement" 311(1)
10 April 1999, "My Turn" 312(1)
10 May 1999, "Eat My Words" 313(1)
19 May 1999, "I Finally Decohere" 313(2)
02 June 1999, "9906006" 315(1)
26 August 1999, "A Contextual Thought" 316(1)
23 September 1999, "End of the Day" 316(1)
24 September 1999, "More Peierls" 317(1)
26 September 1999, "Wigner" 318(1)
27 September 1999, "contra-Koopman" 318(1)
18 December 1999, "KS Crypto" 319(1)
19 December 1999, "State of Confusion" 319(1)
27 December 1999, "Fuchs, but not Laflamme" 320(1)
09 January 2000, "KS Cryptoland" 320(1)
09 March 2000, "Petra" 321(1)
07 April 2000, "Why Fidelity?" 322(1)
22 April 2000, "Cats and Kitties" 323(1)
24 April 2000, "Fuzzy Cats" 323(1)
12 July 2000, "Two Answers" 324(1)
24 August 2000, "Expenses, Reimbursements, and Memories" 324(1)
01 November 2000, "Catching Up" 325(1)
23 Diary of a Carefully Worded Paper: More Letters to Asher Peres 326(69)
Introduction 326(7)
A Quantum Theory Needs No `Interpretation' 327(3)
B Quantum Theory
Interpretation, Formulation, Inspiration 330(3)
29 September 1999, "The Next Move" 333(1)
01 October 1999, "One More Round" 334(1)
01 October 1999, "We Are Converging" 334(1)
05 October 1999, "Sorry So Late" 335(1)
03 November 1999, "Explanation of My Absence" 335(1)
07 November 1999, "A Sunday the Way I Like to Spend It" 336(1)
12 November 1999, "Embryo.tex" 337(1)
13 November 1999, "Putting the Finger" 337(2)
15 November 1999, "Have a Good Trip" 339(1)
17 November 1999, "Holding Pattern" 340(1)
18 November 1999, "Gamete Actually" 340(2)
Parsing the Paper 340(2)
19 November 1999, "The Nut House" 342(1)
19 November 1999, "End o' Day" 342(1)
20 November 1999, "Almost Fetal" 342(1)
21 November 1999, "Miracles of Office Technology" 342(3)
21 November 1999, "Kathie and Erwin" 345(1)
22 November 1999, "A Baby Kicks?" 345(6)
Parsing the Paper 346(5)
23 November 1999, "Airport Time" 351(1)
25 November 1999, "Apologies" 352(1)
26 November 1999, "Too Late to Abort?" 352(3)
Parsing the Paper 352(3)
07 December 1999, "Took Care of Bureaucracy" 355(1)
11 December 1999, "Productivity" 356(1)
12 December 1999, "Thinking It's a Toddler" 356(4)
Parsing the Paper 357(3)
14 December 1999, "Fear of Numbers" 360(2)
Parsing the Paper 360(2)
14 December 1999, "Lost Toddlers" 362(1)
14 December 1999, "Training Pants?" 363(4)
Parsing the Paper 363(4)
15 December 1999, "Insanity and Insomnia" 367(1)
15 December 1999, "One Last Stumble" 367(1)
15 December 1999, "Detailed Commentary" 368(3)
16 December 1999, "Our Baby Leaves Home" 371(1)
22 January 2000, "Big Old Jet Airliner" 372(1)
28 January 2000, "Benka" 372(1)
01 February 2000, "Us vs. Them" 372(6)
02 February 2000, "Cartoon URGENT" 378(1)
03 February 2000, "Sorry" 378(1)
04 February 2000, "Running in Circles" 378(1)
04 February 2000, "Oops" 379(3)
Asher's Reply 382(1)
05 February 2000, "Only Trouble Spot" 382(2)
05 February 2000, "Also" 384(1)
05 February 2000, to Steve Benka, cc: Asher, "Beaten" 384(1)
06 February 2000, "Can of Worms" 384(1)
08 February 2000, "Copyright Sent" 384(1)
02 May 2000, "Physics Today and Way Behind" 385(1)
10 May 2000, 9:19 AM, "Alive and Well" 385(1)
11 May 2000, 11:02 AM, and to others, "Alive but Depressed" 386(1)
Asher's Reply: Displaced Persons 386(1)
18 June 2000, "Absence" 386(1)
11 July 2000, "It's a Boy!" 386(1)
11 July 2000, "End o' Day" 387(1)
12 July 2000, "What Muck!" 387(1)
13 July 2000, "Sunny Day Apology" 388(1)
14 July 2000, "Lunchtime Report" 389(1)
14 July 2000, "Here It Comes" 389(1)
Parsing the Paper 389(1)
16 July 2000, "Getting Slow Start" 390(1)
16 July 2000, "Blue in the Face" 391(1)
16 July 2000, "A Little Progress" 391(2)
Parsing the Paper 392(1)
17 July 2000, "A Little Pride" 393(1)
17 July 2000, "Great" 393(1)
19 July 2000, "Bigger Change" 393(1)
21 July 2000, "God, etc." 393(1)
21 July 2000, "24 Changes" 394(1)
24 Letters to John Preskill 395(14)
18 November 1997, "The Radical Eye" 395(1)
21 November 1997, "Closing the Door" 396(1)
02 December 1997, "Boojumating" 396(1)
02 December 1997, "Flying Equations" 396(1)
07 August 1998, "Impressions" 397(1)
06 April 1999, "Round 1" 397(1)
01 September 1999, "Flushing Fuchses" 398(1)
07 September 1999, "Two Rabbis in a Bar" 399(2)
08 September 1999, "Smug Note" 401(3)
10 September 1999, "Meeker Note" 404(2)
12 December 1999, "Freedom" 406(1)
10 October 2000, "Sneak Previews" 406(3)
25 Letters to Joseph Renes 409(4)
22 June 2000, "References for Gleason" 409(1)
11 December 2000, "New Ideas and Old Men" 409(2)
05 January 2001. "In Defense of Interactionism" 411(1)
30 March 2001, "Web Page Snooping" 411(1)
11 April 2001, "Piggybacking Philosophy on Physics" 411(2)
26 Letters to Mary Beth Ruskai 413(5)
17 February 2000, "The Quantum View" 413(2)
20 February 2000, "Like It Even Better" 415(1)
18 April 2000, "Extremal Maps" 415(1)
19 December 2000, "Myopic Readers" 415(1)
24 March 2001. "For Other Myopic Readers" 416(2)
27 Letters to Rudiger Schaek 418(44)
28 February 1996, "QM is a Law of Thought" 418(1)
13 September 1996. "Silly Latin" 418(2)
Rudiger's First Reply: 19 September 1996 418(1)
Rudiger's Second Reply: 3 May 2001 419(1)
Rudiger's Third Reply: 4 May 2001 419(1)
Rudiger's Fourth Reply: 4 May 2001 419(1)
15 October 1996, "Mechanica Quantica" 420(1)
09 August 1997, "Correspondentia" 421(6)
17 August 1997, "New Babies of Quantum Information" 427(1)
29 September 1997, "The Hidden Hand" 427(3)
02 October 1997, "Wake Up Call" 430(1)
06 October 1997, "Germinal Jewel" 430(1)
07 October 1997, "Two Forgotten Questions" 431(1)
12 October 1997, "The Deep End" 431(1)
21 November 1997, "Deadbeats for Quantum Reality" 432(1)
14 January 1998, "Practice and Perfection" 433(1)
13 March 1998, "Maximal Information and Schrodinger" 433(4)
Rudiger's First Reply 433(3)
Rudiger's Second Reply 436(1)
17 March 1998, "Schnitt" 437(1)
18 March 1998, "Hi" 437(1)
Rudiger's Reply 437(1)
23 March 1998, "Frightening Depths" 437(1)
23 March 1998, "Bohr's Palate" 438(1)
22 April 1998, "Infinite Patience" 438(1)
23 April 1998, "It Sinks Deeper" 439(1)
24 April 1998, "Groping and Moping" 439(1)
27 April 1998, "Fenomeno Aleatorio" 440(2)
30 April 1998, "One Stone Unturned" 442(5)
24 May 1998, "Nature Says No" 447(1)
31 August 1998, "Comfort in Numbers" 447(1)
21 January 1999, "Stupendous Literature Man" 447(2)
25 January 1999, "Oh Hibernia" 449(1)
25 January 1999, and to Carl Caves, "Oh Hernia" 450(1)
01 August 1999, and to Carl Caves, "Recording the Vague" 451(2)
18 August 1999, and to Carl Caves, "A Hated Phrase" 453(1)
29 August 1999, and to Carl Caves, "Penrose Tiles" 453(6)
22 September 1999, "Andrei" 459(1)
17 June 2000, "Quantum Pedophiles" 460(1)
03 September 2000, "One Sentence?" 460(1)
Rudiger's Reply 461(1)
05 April 2001, "Waking in the Hundred Acre Wood" 461(1)
28 Letters to Robert Schumann 462(5)
22 February 2000, "Your Project" 462(1)
23 February 2000, "OK" 462(2)
20 March 2000, "Ontology" 464(1)
20 March 2000, "Interventions" 465(1)
20 March 2000, "The Blank" 465(1)
25 August 2000, "Start of the Day" 466(1)
29 Letters to Abner Shimony 467(2)
16 December 1999, "Evolutionary Laws Paper" 467(1)
20 January 2001, "Nonontology" 467(1)
04 April 2001, "Using Shannon to Build on Bohr" 468(1)
30 Letters to Jon Waskan 469(4)
24 April 1999, "Thinking Kantian Thoughts?" 469(1)
Jon's Reply 469(1)
11 May 1999, "Nails and Heads" 470(2)
23 August 1999, "The Point" 472(1)
Jon's Reply 472(1)
31 Letters to Bill Wootters 473(10)
31 October 1997, and to Asher Peres, "Premonition?" 473(1)
21 July 1998, "Quantum Giggles" 473(1)
30 August 1998, "Oh So Close" 474(1)
16 September 1998, "The Aphorism" 475(1)
14 November 1998, "Magic Eight Ball" 475(1)
17 November 1998, "Supplement on Undergrads: In Case It's Useful" 476(1)
02 January 1999, "The Holidays" 476(1)
24 January 1999, "Throwing Away Old Scraps" 477(1)
24 May 1999, "The Consequence of Indeterminism" 477(1)
02 July 1999, "Small Piece of WV" 478(1)
13 July 1999, "Weyling Away My Time" 478(1)
23 July 1999, "Autumn Leaves" 478(2)
Bill's Reply 479(1)
02 August 1999, "Consistent Inconsistencies" 480(1)
20 August 1999, "Echoes" 480(1)
Bill's Reply 481(1)
30 September 1999, "Your Dog" 481(1)
12 February 2000, "Feels Right" 482(1)
13 February 2000, "Zteiner" 482(1)
32 Letters to Anton Zeilinger 483(2)
06 January 1999, "The (Un-)Detached Observer" 483(1)
Anton's Reply 483(1)
11 July 2000, "Need Reference" 484(1)
20 July 2000, "Our Mutual Interest" 484(1)
33 Other Letters 485(49)
11 April 1996, to Michiel van Lambalgen, "Thesis" 485(1)
15 April 1996, to Michiel van Lambalgen, "Getting Started" 486(1)
19 July 1996, to Sam Braunstein, "The Prior" 487(1)
22 January 1997, to Harald Weinfurter, "Random Recall" 488(1)
29 July 1997, to Ken Alder, "Rosenthal Thesis" 488(3)
16 October 1997, to Lucien Hardy, "Wispy Words" 491(1)
10 October 1997, to Eli Yablonovitch, "Entanglement and Correlation" 492(1)
16 October 1997, to Glenn Starkman, "Michelson Lecture Proposal" 493(3)
19 January 1998, to Daniel Kevles, "Herzfeld History" 496(1)
19 January 1998, to Gary Herling, "Herzfeld" 496(1)
22 January 1998, to Alan Hajek, "Bohr was a Bayesian?" 496(1)
14 March 1998, to Ryszard Horodecki, "Jaynes' Principle" 497(1)
05 May 1998, to Ronald Giere, "Quantum Propensity & Quote" 497(1)
05 May 1998, to Ronald Giere, "Propensity Stuff" 498(1)
10 August 1998, to Richard Beyler, "Your Thesis" 499(1)
16 August 1998, to Adan Cabello, "Mermin and His Correlata" 499(1)
19 August 1998, to Richard Cleve, "The Word Entanglement" 500(2)
01 October 1998, to Richard Beyler, "More Pauli" 502(1)
13 October 1998, to Itamar Pitowsky, "Rational Gleason" 503(1)
Itamar's Reply 503(1)
19 October 1998, to John B. Kennedy, "Tensor Products" 503(1)
28 October 1998, to Charles Seife, "Yeeks!" 504(1)
03 November 1998, to Daniel Gottesman, "The Bill Wootters Fan-Club Page" 505(4)
27 November 1998, to Tim Ralph, "Quantum Teleportation: A QND View?" 509(5)
17 April 1999, to Salman Habib, "Tightivity/Quantum Sensitivity" 514(2)
08 June 1999, to Todd Brun, "Information Theoretic Entanglement" 516(1)
03 August 1999, to Alan Fowler, "Landauer Memorial" 517(1)
18 August 1999, to Rob Spekkens, "Modal Stuff" 518(1)
23 August 1999, to Sylvan Schweber, "Living with Law without Law" 518(1)
24 August 1999, to Pawel Wocjan, "Quantum Theory from QKD" 519(1)
24 August 1999, to Dominik Janzing, "Bopp Stuff" 519(1)
07 January 2000, to Jeremy Butterfield, "Page Numbers for Shimony" 520(1)
07 February 2000, to Eugen Merzbacher, "Missing Copenhagen" 520(1)
27 July 2000, to Robert Garisto, "The Zing of Empty Space" 520(1)
14 November 2000, to Steven van Enk, "Always One Theory Behind" 521(1)
14 January 2001, to Rob Pike, "Wispy Sunday" 522(1)
18 January 2001, to Max Tegmark, "100 Years of the Quantum" 522(6)
20 January 2001, to John Smolin, "Shannon Meets Bohr" 528(1)
26 January 2001, to Jeremy Butterfield, "Worlds in the Everett Interpretation" 529(1)
27 January 2001, to David Wallace, "The Test Particle" 530(1)
27 February 2001, to Vaxjo Meeting participants, "Claude Elwood Shannon" 531(1)
Postpartum 532(1)
16 May 2000, "History Reduced to Eight Pages" 532(2)
Index of Names 534
Foreword xxiii
N. David Mermin
Introduction to the Cambridge University Press Edition xxv
Introduction to the Original ArXiv.org Posting lii
Disclaimers liii
Acknowledgements liii
John Preskill's Challenge liv
The Paulian Idea lv
1 Letters to David Baker 1(9)
22 July 1996, "Noodles of Nothing" 1(1)
27 July 1996, "Life on Long Island" 1(2)
03 August 1996, "Lonely Jazz" 3(1)
17 August 1996, "More Meaning" 4(1)
19 August 1996, "Self Promotion" 5(1)
01 September 1997, "Mo' Investigative Work" 5(1)
21 February 1998, "Home a Short While" 5(1)
02 March 1998, "Long Finicky Flight" 5(2)
14 April 1998, and to Herb Bernstein, "Hawking on Evolution" 7(1)
17 May 1998, "The Electronic Itch" 7(1)
14 August 1999, "Rampant Repine" 8(1)
28 July 2000, "The Role of Registered Phenomena" 9(1)
2 Letters to Howard Baker 10(10)
29 September 1997, "Quantum Information Questions" 10(4)
02 October 1997, "Next Round" 14(5)
06 October 1997, "49th Parallel" 19(1)
3 Letters to Howard Barnum 20(8)
02 June 1999, "Please Do" 20(1)
17 June 1999, "So Slow" 20(1)
04 July 1999, "No Microphysical Reality?" 21(1)
18 August 1999, "Modalities" 21(1)
30 August 1999, "It's All About Schmoz" 22(2)
05 September 1999, "New Schmoz Cola" 24(4)
4 Letters to Paul Benioff 28(10)
09 April 1996, "Randomness" 28(1)
Paul's Reply 28(1)
15 April 1996, "More Randomness" 29(1)
Paul's Reply 29(1)
30 April 1998, "Randomness Again" 30(1)
Paul's Reply 30(1)
10 June 1999, "Definitive List?" 31(2)
Paul's Reply 33(1)
19 March 2000, "Probability Validation" 33(1)
20 March 2000, "Small Addendum" 34(1)
20 October 2000, "Not Instructions, but Information" 35(3)
5 Letters to Charlie Bennett 38(6)
25 December 1997, "Bennett Festschrift" 38(1)
05 May 1998, and to many others, "Probability Does Not Exist" 39(1)
07 December 1998, and to the other teleporters, "Swedish Bikini Team" 39(1)
10 December 1998, "More Swedish Bikini Team" 40(1)
10 December 1998, "More Bikinis" 41(1)
Charlie's Reply 41(1)
10 December 1998, "500 Swedish Irregular Verbs" 41(1)
13 January 1999, and to many others, "Emma Jane Fuchs" 42(1)
10 February 1999, "Computational Power of N w/o E??" 42(1)
05 June 1999, "Emma Jane" 42(1)
27 November 2000, "An Emoticon" 43(1)
6 Letters to Herb Bernstein 44(37)
25 December 1996, "Reality Steaks" 44(1)
17 February 1997, "Prophetic Herberts" 44(1)
Herb's Reply 45(1)
23 February 1997, "Herbertic Realities" 45(1)
27 March 1997, "Consistent Herb" 45(1)
29 March 1997, "More Reality" 46(1)
07 April 1997, "Howling Quanta" 47(1)
05 June 1997, "Dreams of a More Ethereal Quantum" 48(1)
04 August 1997, "The Nielsbohricon" 49(1)
12 October 1997, "Reality as Realty" 50(1)
13 November 1997, "Tria Juncta In Uno" 51(1)
23 November 1997, "Sunday Baudrillard" 51(1)
28 November 1997, "Muddling Through Reality" 51(1)
10 December 1997, "Reality Alert I" 52(1)
10 December 1997, "List of Sins" 52(1)
27 December 1997, "Reality Alert II" 53(1)
29 December 1997, "Cradle of Reality" 53(1)
04 January 1998, "Bohr, Bayesians, and Bernsteins" 53(1)
14 January 1998, "Quote-A-Day" 54(1)
25 January 1998, "Shame Dance" 55(1)
02 March 1998, "Early Morning Japan" 55(1)
08 March 1998, "The Soul of Daibutsu" 55(1)
29 March 1998, "Philosophical Purgation" 55(1)
02 January 1999, and to Greg Comer, "A New Year's Toast" 56(2)
03 January 1999, "Mary and Banville" 58(1)
24 April 1999, "Genetic Genesis" 59(1)
08 May 1999, "A Fleck of Quantization" 59(12)
A Few of Fleck's Thoughts (with Annotation) 61(9)
The Denkkollektiv and the Quantum 70(1)
15 May 1999, "Tsk, Tsk" 71(1)
22 May 1999, "Reality in Lottery" 71(1)
02 August 1999, "Epiphenomena Chez Dyer" 72(4)
17 August 1999, "A Bernstein Off the Earth?" 76(1)
14 September 1999, "A Fleck of Fleck" 77(1)
01 September 2000, "The Allure of Texas" 78(1)
09 September 2000, "More Fleckulation" 79(1)
26 October 2000, "Activating or Catalyzing?" 79(1)
29 November 2000, "Anecdote" 80(1)
7 Letters to Doug Bilodeau 81(9)
22 August 1999, "Your Article" 81(1)
28 August 1999, "Not Much" 81(1)
Doug's Reply 82(1)
06 September 1999, "Labor Day Lounging" 82(1)
06 September 1999, "Another Request" 83(1)
05 November 1999, "Setting the Initial Condition" 83(3)
Doug's Reply 86(1)
21 March 2000, "You Might Enjoy" 86(1)
22 March 2000, "Wheeler" 87(1)
15 April 2000, "Pierce Cringes" 87(1)
08 June 2000, "Resend?" 88(2)
Doug's Reply 88(2)
8 Letters to Gilles Brassard 90(15)
18 November 1997, "Bolt from the Blue" 90(1)
31 August 1999, "Subliminal Messages" 90(1)
23 January 2000, "I See Why Bit Commitment!" 91(1)
22 March 2000, "It from Bit" 92(1)
15 May 2000, to the attendees of the Montreal Meeting, "Problem Set Coming" 93(1)
15 May 2000, "Problem Set Based on Information-Disturbance Foundation Quest" 93(1)
A Some Concrete Problems 94(7)
Problem #1 Pre-Gleason, or Why Orthogonality? 94(3)
Problem #2 Wootters Revamped with POVMs 97(2)
Problem #3 Post-Gleason, or Should I Think von Neumann Is Special? 99(1)
Problem #4 Where Did Bayes Go? 99(2)
B Some Not-So Concrete Problems 101(1)
Proto-Problem #1 Computing Power vs. Error Correctability 101(1)
Proto-Problem #2 Entanglement Monogamy and Schrodinger's Insight 101(1)
Proto-Problem #3 Down with Beables, Up with Dingables 101(1)
Proto-Problem #4 Intrinsic Characterization of Complete Positivity 102(1)
Proto-Problem #5 Doing Gleason with Algebraic Numbers 102(1)
Proto-Problem #6 Challenge to Everettistas 102(1)
17 June 2000, and to Montreal Meeting participants, "Memories of Montreal" 102(2)
26 July 2000, "Interaction without Interactoids?" 104(1)
9 Letters to Jeffrey Bub 105(12)
03 April 2000, "Foundations in the Light of Information" 105(1)
30 September 2000, "Commit the Bit!" 106(3)
Jeff's Reply 108(1)
30 October 2000, "Curiosity" 109(1)
Jeff's Reply 110(1)
10 December 2000, "The Oyster and the Quantum" 110(4)
Jeff's Reply 114(1)
11 January 2001, "Thanks" 114(1)
14 January 2001, "Barnum and KS" 114(1)
18 January 2001, "The Short Answer" 115(2)
10 Letters to Carlton Caves 117(33)
08 April 1996, "Hartle/Coleman Comments" 117(5)
12 April 1996, `Topping Math" 122(3)
15 April 1996, "No More Math" 125(1)
21 December 1997, "Falling Off the Earth" 126(11)
Carl's Replies 126(1)
The Structure of Quantum Information 127(1)
I Orientation 127(1)
II Research Proposal 128(3)
III Wider Seas 131(2)
IV Summary 133(1)
V References 133(4)
22 December 1997, "Bohr was a Bayesian" 137(1)
20 September 1998, "Dropping In" 137(2)
Carl's Reply 138(1)
24 September 1998, "Emerging Reality" 139(1)
27 January 1999, "Bohmian Computers" 139(1)
19 February 1999, "A Bright Young Man" 139(1)
02 March 1999, "Caves History" 139(1)
03 May 1999, "Complex H Space" 140(1)
10 June 1999, "Gleasonization" 140(1)
10 September 1999, "The Dangers of Probabilismo" 141(1)
12 September 1999, "CPM Extreme Points" 142(1)
23 September 1999, "The Ontological Tide" 142(1)
23 September 1999, "The Ontological Rip Tide" 142(1)
27 September 1999, "Cleaning the Plate" and "Last Scrap" 143(1)
24 March 2000, "Title and Abstract?" 143(1)
30 June 2000, "Greece" 144(4)
Carl's Preply 144(4)
07 September 2000, "Critical Letters and Reply" 148(1)
13 November 2000, "Bush vs. Bohr" 148(1)
01 February 2001, "An Ed/Ellen Jaynesian" 149(1)
01 February 2001, "My Jaynes" 149(1)
26 February 2001, "Death of a Salesman" 149(1)
11 Letters to Greg Comer 150(40)
14 February 1995, "Turtle Wax" 150(1)
04 March 1995, "Saturday Slush" 151(1)
07 March 1995, "Please, Please No More!" 151(1)
27 January 1996, "Philo" 152(1)
20 February 1996, "The Mont-Royal Sweats" 153(1)
27 February 1996, "Kant Cola" 154(1)
06 March 1996, "Rub Me" 155(1)
26 March 1996, "Savagery" 156(1)
27 March 1996, "Strange Comment" 156(1)
01 April 1996, "Puppy Scoops" 156(1)
04 May 1996, "You May Enjoy" 157(1)
19 July 1996, "Old Moods" 157(1)
16 August 1996, "Hot Pavement and Slushy QM" 158(1)
18 August 1996, "Morning Thoughts" 159(1)
29 August 1996, "Gerry Niewood on Saxophone" 159(1)
01 September 1996, and to David Baker, "The Iconostasis" 159(1)
Greg's Reply 160(1)
03 September 1996, "A Procrastinating Plunk" 160(1)
31 May 1997, "Long Day" 160(1)
09 June 1997, "Dictionaries and Their Problems" 161(1)
23 September 1997, "Airy Nothing" 162(1)
12 November 1997, "Mad Girl's Lovesong" 163(1)
19 November 1997, "Poesy of the Quantum" 163(1)
25 November 1997, "Flatt and Scruggs" 164(1)
17 December 1997, "It's a Wonderful Life" 164(1)
04 January 1998, "Lazy Weekend" 164(1)
Greg's Reply 165(1)
19 January 1998, "Happy Quotes" 165(2)
26 January 1998, "Lunch Break" 167(1)
07 February 1998, "Getting Nerves" 167(1)
03 March 1998, "Japanese Kitchen" 168(1)
31 March 1998, "What a Lunchtime Bohr" 168(1)
16 April 1998, "Just the Way It Had To Be" 169(1)
05 May 1998, "Expected" 169(1)
27 May 1998, "My Head, My Head" 169(1)
18 July 1998, "Short Note" 170(1)
28 July 1998, "Macaroni" 170(1)
07 September 1998, "The Quotable Pauli" 171(1)
09 October 1998, "Billiards and the Eight" 171(1)
17 November 1998, "A Break in Pace" 172(1)
17 November 1998, "Heresy!" 172(1)
05 April 1999, "Pasadena Visit" 173(1)
11 April 1999, "One I Like" 173(1)
22 April 1999, "Fuchsian Genesis" 174(1)
27 June 1999, "Raining Down in Cambridge" 175(1)
28 August 1999, "No Podunks Here" 176(1)
25 November 1999, "Thanks and Giving" 177(1)
17 December 1999, "Trinity" 177(1)
23 January 2000, "Darling Quotes" 178(1)
25 January 2000, "Fear" 179(1)
27 January 2000, "Chili Cheese Fries" 179(1)
07 February 2000, "The Fine Line" 179(1)
20 February 2000, "Rabbits on the Moon" 180(1)
25 June 2000, "Waxing Surfboards" 180(1)
28 July 2000, "Great Quote" 181(1)
10 August 2000, "Heavy Information" 181(1)
11 August 2000, "The Mathematics of Experiment" 182(1)
18 September 2000, "A Non-Randy Non-Bugger" 182(2)
06 October 2000, "The Evolution of Thought" 184(1)
14 October 2000, "On the Mark" 185(1)
14 October 2000, "More Evolution" 186(1)
16 October 2000, "More Linearity" 186(1)
16 October 2000, "Three References" 187(1)
29 October 2000, "Poincare Singularities" 187(1)
27 November 2000, "A Lesson in Physics?" 188(1)
15 January 2001, "Good Turns of Phrase" 188(2)
12 Letters to Charles Enz 190(2)
12 June 1999, "Interest in Pauli" 190(1)
21 August 1999, "One More Article?" 190(1)
09 June 2000, "Another Request" 191(1)
13 Letters to Henry Folse 192(6)
17 January 2001, "First Contact" 192(1)
07 February 2001, "Heartfelt Thanks" 192(1)
16 February 2001, "Is It Complete?" 193(1)
09 March 2001, "The Right Choice" 194(2)
14 March 2001, "The Archive Again" 196(2)
14 Letters to Bob Griffiths 198(7)
10 February 1997, "Sunday Afternoons and Consistent Histories" 198(7)
15 Letters to Adrian Kent 205(5)
30 August 1998, "Desiderata" 205(1)
30 August 1998, "Well Look At That" 206(1)
02 September 1998, "Vague and Vagary" 206(1)
17 January 1999, "Cigar and the Greeks" 207(1)
20 January 1999, "Clarity" 207(1)
20 January 1999, "Atomic Souls" 208(1)
03 February 1999, "Noumenal Mental Atoms" 208(1)
05 February 2001, "The Eerie Parallel" 209(1)
16 Letters to Rolf Landauer 210(5)
15 February 1998, "Law Without Law ... Or Something Like That" 210(1)
Rolf's Reply 210(1)
06 July 1998, "Evolution and Physics" 211(2)
Rolf's Reply 212(1)
28 July 1998, "Precision" 213(1)
Rolf's Reply 213(1)
08 October 1998, "Info is Physical" 213(2)
Rolf's Reply 213(2)
17 Letters to Hideo Mabuchi 215(2)
22 November 1997, "Martha White and Her Flour" 215(1)
05 October 1998, "Oh Magic Eight Ball" 215(1)
01 July 2000, "Destinkifiers" 216(1)
18 Letters to David Mermin 217(57)
18 September 1996, "Theorem II" 217(1)
13 October 1997, "Caltech and Propensities" 218(1)
09 December 1997, "The Philosophy of `Nothing-More'-ism" 218(1)
10 December 1997, "Deconstructing Ithaca" 218(1)
10 December 1997, "Game and Format" 219(1)
14 December 1997, "An Idle Thought" 219(1)
17 December 1997, "Exercise in Anti-Lucidity" 220(1)
10-17 December 1997, "Big Bowl of Anti-Lucidite" 220(11)
A My Outlook 220(1)
B Teleported Goulash 221(1)
I Immediate Goulash 221(2)
II Big Bowls of Goulash 223(8)
C Pause 231(1)
07 January 1998, "Cloud-Cuckoo-Land" 231(2)
15 January 1998, "Buttered Toast" 233(2)
15 January 1998, "Thanks" 235(1)
15 February 1998, "Landau, Lifshitz, Correlata, and Pauli" 235(1)
14 March 1998, "Pauli in Ithaca" 236(1)
29 March 1998, "Ithacan Monadology" 236(1)
17 April 1998, "References" 237(1)
17 April 1998, "How Do I Sleep?" 238(1)
20 April 1998, "Socrates and Rosenfeld" 239(1)
21 April 1998, "C Hunkies" 240(1)
07 May 1998, "A Rug and A Sweep" 240(1)
08 May 1998, "A Bug in the Soup" 241(1)
04 September 1998, "The Bohrazine Shuffle" 242(2)
08 September 1998, "I'll Bohr You to Tears" 244(6)
09 September 1998, "Unbohrlievable!" 250(1)
07 October 1998, "Carnap" 251(1)
08 October 1998, "Oh Mighty Mermin" 251(1)
13 December 1998, and to several others, "Little Historical Point" 252(1)
David's Reply 252(1)
13 December 1998, "Missing Something" 253(1)
13 December 1998, and to several others, "I Whig-ed Out" 253(1)
27 December 1998, "Executive Summary" 254(1)
David's Reply 254(1)
11 January 1999, "Chewin' the Fat" 255(1)
11 January 1999, "Chewin' the Cud" 255(1)
17 January 1999, "My Homework" 255(1)
21 January 1999, "Schrodingerization" 256(1)
21 January 1999, "More Stupendous Literature Man" 256(1)
28 January 1999, "The Propaganda Cocktail" 256(1)
31 January 1999, "Schrodinger Note" 257(1)
21 May 1999, "A Bohr, a Door, and a ... " 257(1)
08 June 1999, "I'm Not Alone" 257(1)
13 June 1999, "Crackpots in Quantum Land" 258(1)
15 October 1999, "In Transit" 258(1)
15 October 1999, "More In Transit" 258(1)
16 December 1999, "Peierls and Commutivity" 259(1)
17 December 1999, "Reality of the Symbol" 260(1)
26 January 2000, "Note #2
Foundations in Montreal" 261(1)
20 March 2000, "Invitation Coming Finally" 262(1)
23 March 2000, "Can You Complete This?" 262(1)
03 April 2000, "Gleason, For the Record" 263(1)
05 April 2000, "Commutivity" 263(1)
David's Reply 264(1)
05 April 2000, "Pauli Understood Entanglement" 264(1)
06 April 2000, "Mist of the Future" 265(1)
20 July 2000, "Zing!" 265(2)
20 July 2000, "Schrodinger from a Different Angle" 267(1)
23 July 2000, "Great Garrett Quote" 267(4)
05 October 2000, "Bad Gleason Mornings" 271(1)
12 October 2000, "Turning Heads ... At Least One" 271(1)
03 November 2000, "Do You Know?" 272(1)
23 April 2001, "New Posting" 272(1)
David's First Reply 272(1)
David's Second Reply 272(1)
26 April 2001, "Fire of the Soul" 273(1)
19 Letters to David Meyer 274(2)
23 February 1999, "From Gleason to Pitowsky" 274(1)
11 May 1999, "SD and KS" and "Even More Relevant" 274(1)
13 November 1999, "What Did vN Not Know?" 275(1)
13 November 1999, "A Couple More Things" 275(1)
20 Letters to Jeff Nicholson 276(3)
06 June 1996, "Cyclic Never-Endings" 276(1)
22 August 1996, "Laws of Thought" 276(1)
22 August 1996, "Plagiarists" 276(1)
09 October 1997, "Pickin', Scratchin', and Grinnin'" 277(1)
23 November 1997, "Long Note on a Sunday Morning" 277(1)
10 March 1999, "Schnockerization" 277(2)
21 Letters to Michael Nielsen 279(8)
22 February 1996, "Goo-Losh" 279(1)
18 March 1996, "The Commitments" 279(2)
01 April 1996, "Mo' Better Sophistry" 281(1)
04 September 1996, "One Mo' Book" 282(1)
16 May 1999, "Purifications" 282(1)
23 August 1999, "A Convergence of Sorts" 283(2)
25 August 1999, "Late Night Threads" 285(1)
14 July 2000, "Quantum Theory Does Need an Interpretation" 285(1)
09 August 2000, "Big Red Xs" 286(1)
22 Letters to Asher Peres 287(39)
05 June 1997, "Painting My Stripes" 287(1)
16 October 1997, "Royal Order of Recalcitrant Positivists" 288(1)
17 October 1997, "Energy ... Really" 288(1)
20 October 1997, "A Little More Reality" 289(10)
Harsh Criticisms 289(1)
Typos and Englos 290(1)
Foods for Thought [sic] 290(9)
22 October 1997, "Honesty" 299(1)
23 October 1997, "Tyche or Moira?" 300(1)
15 December 1997, "Hay-Peres Comments" 300(1)
29 January 1998, "Strange Surprise" 301(1)
05 April 1998, "Other Things" 301(1)
01 December 1998, "Here Comes the Judge" 302(7)
16 December 1998, "Nonlinear CPMs" 309(1)
26 December 1998, "The Deep Intervention" 310(1)
08 April 1999, "Delayed Entanglement" 311(1)
10 April 1999, "My Turn" 312(1)
10 May 1999, "Eat My Words" 313(1)
19 May 1999, "I Finally Decohere" 313(2)
02 June 1999, "9906006" 315(1)
26 August 1999, "A Contextual Thought" 316(1)
23 September 1999, "End of the Day" 316(1)
24 September 1999, "More Peierls" 317(1)
26 September 1999, "Wigner" 318(1)
27 September 1999, "contra-Koopman" 318(1)
18 December 1999, "KS Crypto" 319(1)
19 December 1999, "State of Confusion" 319(1)
27 December 1999, "Fuchs, but not Laflamme" 320(1)
09 January 2000, "KS Cryptoland" 320(1)
09 March 2000, "Petra" 321(1)
07 April 2000, "Why Fidelity?" 322(1)
22 April 2000, "Cats and Kitties" 323(1)
24 April 2000, "Fuzzy Cats" 323(1)
12 July 2000, "Two Answers" 324(1)
24 August 2000, "Expenses, Reimbursements, and Memories" 324(1)
01 November 2000, "Catching Up" 325(1)
23 Diary of a Carefully Worded Paper: More Letters to Asher Peres 326(69)
Introduction 326(7)
A Quantum Theory Needs No `Interpretation' 327(3)
B Quantum Theory
Interpretation, Formulation, Inspiration 330(3)
29 September 1999, "The Next Move" 333(1)
01 October 1999, "One More Round" 334(1)
01 October 1999, "We Are Converging" 334(1)
05 October 1999, "Sorry So Late" 335(1)
03 November 1999, "Explanation of My Absence" 335(1)
07 November 1999, "A Sunday the Way I Like to Spend It" 336(1)
12 November 1999, "Embryo.tex" 337(1)
13 November 1999, "Putting the Finger" 337(2)
15 November 1999, "Have a Good Trip" 339(1)
17 November 1999, "Holding Pattern" 340(1)
18 November 1999, "Gamete Actually" 340(2)
Parsing the Paper 340(2)
19 November 1999, "The Nut House" 342(1)
19 November 1999, "End o' Day" 342(1)
20 November 1999, "Almost Fetal" 342(1)
21 November 1999, "Miracles of Office Technology" 342(3)
21 November 1999, "Kathie and Erwin" 345(1)
22 November 1999, "A Baby Kicks?" 345(6)
Parsing the Paper 346(5)
23 November 1999, "Airport Time" 351(1)
25 November 1999, "Apologies" 352(1)
26 November 1999, "Too Late to Abort?" 352(3)
Parsing the Paper 352(3)
07 December 1999, "Took Care of Bureaucracy" 355(1)
11 December 1999, "Productivity" 356(1)
12 December 1999, "Thinking It's a Toddler" 356(4)
Parsing the Paper 357(3)
14 December 1999, "Fear of Numbers" 360(2)
Parsing the Paper 360(2)
14 December 1999, "Lost Toddlers" 362(1)
14 December 1999, "Training Pants?" 363(4)
Parsing the Paper 363(4)
15 December 1999, "Insanity and Insomnia" 367(1)
15 December 1999, "One Last Stumble" 367(1)
15 December 1999, "Detailed Commentary" 368(3)
16 December 1999, "Our Baby Leaves Home" 371(1)
22 January 2000, "Big Old Jet Airliner" 372(1)
28 January 2000, "Benka" 372(1)
01 February 2000, "Us vs. Them" 372(6)
02 February 2000, "Cartoon URGENT" 378(1)
03 February 2000, "Sorry" 378(1)
04 February 2000, "Running in Circles" 378(1)
04 February 2000, "Oops" 379(3)
Asher's Reply 382(1)
05 February 2000, "Only Trouble Spot" 382(2)
05 February 2000, "Also" 384(1)
05 February 2000, to Steve Benka, cc: Asher, "Beaten" 384(1)
06 February 2000, "Can of Worms" 384(1)
08 February 2000, "Copyright Sent" 384(1)
02 May 2000, "Physics Today and Way Behind" 385(1)
10 May 2000, 9:19 AM, "Alive and Well" 385(1)
11 May 2000, 11:02 AM, and to others, "Alive but Depressed" 386(1)
Asher's Reply: Displaced Persons 386(1)
18 June 2000, "Absence" 386(1)
11 July 2000, "It's a Boy!" 386(1)
11 July 2000, "End o' Day" 387(1)
12 July 2000, "What Muck!" 387(1)
13 July 2000, "Sunny Day Apology" 388(1)
14 July 2000, "Lunchtime Report" 389(1)
14 July 2000, "Here It Comes" 389(1)
Parsing the Paper 389(1)
16 July 2000, "Getting Slow Start" 390(1)
16 July 2000, "Blue in the Face" 391(1)
16 July 2000, "A Little Progress" 391(2)
Parsing the Paper 392(1)
17 July 2000, "A Little Pride" 393(1)
17 July 2000, "Great" 393(1)
19 July 2000, "Bigger Change" 393(1)
21 July 2000, "God, etc." 393(1)
21 July 2000, "24 Changes" 394(1)
24 Letters to John Preskill 395(14)
18 November 1997, "The Radical Eye" 395(1)
21 November 1997, "Closing the Door" 396(1)
02 December 1997, "Boojumating" 396(1)
02 December 1997, "Flying Equations" 396(1)
07 August 1998, "Impressions" 397(1)
06 April 1999, "Round 1" 397(1)
01 September 1999, "Flushing Fuchses" 398(1)
07 September 1999, "Two Rabbis in a Bar" 399(2)
08 September 1999, "Smug Note" 401(3)
10 September 1999, "Meeker Note" 404(2)
12 December 1999, "Freedom" 406(1)
10 October 2000, "Sneak Previews" 406(3)
25 Letters to Joseph Renes 409(4)
22 June 2000, "References for Gleason" 409(1)
11 December 2000, "New Ideas and Old Men" 409(2)
05 January 2001. "In Defense of Interactionism" 411(1)
30 March 2001, "Web Page Snooping" 411(1)
11 April 2001, "Piggybacking Philosophy on Physics" 411(2)
26 Letters to Mary Beth Ruskai 413(5)
17 February 2000, "The Quantum View" 413(2)
20 February 2000, "Like It Even Better" 415(1)
18 April 2000, "Extremal Maps" 415(1)
19 December 2000, "Myopic Readers" 415(1)
24 March 2001. "For Other Myopic Readers" 416(2)
27 Letters to Rudiger Schaek 418(44)
28 February 1996, "QM is a Law of Thought" 418(1)
13 September 1996. "Silly Latin" 418(2)
Rudiger's First Reply: 19 September 1996 418(1)
Rudiger's Second Reply: 3 May 2001 419(1)
Rudiger's Third Reply: 4 May 2001 419(1)
Rudiger's Fourth Reply: 4 May 2001 419(1)
15 October 1996, "Mechanica Quantica" 420(1)
09 August 1997, "Correspondentia" 421(6)
17 August 1997, "New Babies of Quantum Information" 427(1)
29 September 1997, "The Hidden Hand" 427(3)
02 October 1997, "Wake Up Call" 430(1)
06 October 1997, "Germinal Jewel" 430(1)
07 October 1997, "Two Forgotten Questions" 431(1)
12 October 1997, "The Deep End" 431(1)
21 November 1997, "Deadbeats for Quantum Reality" 432(1)
14 January 1998, "Practice and Perfection" 433(1)
13 March 1998, "Maximal Information and Schrodinger" 433(4)
Rudiger's First Reply 433(3)
Rudiger's Second Reply 436(1)
17 March 1998, "Schnitt" 437(1)
18 March 1998, "Hi" 437(1)
Rudiger's Reply 437(1)
23 March 1998, "Frightening Depths" 437(1)
23 March 1998, "Bohr's Palate" 438(1)
22 April 1998, "Infinite Patience" 438(1)
23 April 1998, "It Sinks Deeper" 439(1)
24 April 1998, "Groping and Moping" 439(1)
27 April 1998, "Fenomeno Aleatorio" 440(2)
30 April 1998, "One Stone Unturned" 442(5)
24 May 1998, "Nature Says No" 447(1)
31 August 1998, "Comfort in Numbers" 447(1)
21 January 1999, "Stupendous Literature Man" 447(2)
25 January 1999, "Oh Hibernia" 449(1)
25 January 1999, and to Carl Caves, "Oh Hernia" 450(1)
01 August 1999, and to Carl Caves, "Recording the Vague" 451(2)
18 August 1999, and to Carl Caves, "A Hated Phrase" 453(1)
29 August 1999, and to Carl Caves, "Penrose Tiles" 453(6)
22 September 1999, "Andrei" 459(1)
17 June 2000, "Quantum Pedophiles" 460(1)
03 September 2000, "One Sentence?" 460(1)
Rudiger's Reply 461(1)
05 April 2001, "Waking in the Hundred Acre Wood" 461(1)
28 Letters to Robert Schumann 462(5)
22 February 2000, "Your Project" 462(1)
23 February 2000, "OK" 462(2)
20 March 2000, "Ontology" 464(1)
20 March 2000, "Interventions" 465(1)
20 March 2000, "The Blank" 465(1)
25 August 2000, "Start of the Day" 466(1)
29 Letters to Abner Shimony 467(2)
16 December 1999, "Evolutionary Laws Paper" 467(1)
20 January 2001, "Nonontology" 467(1)
04 April 2001, "Using Shannon to Build on Bohr" 468(1)
30 Letters to Jon Waskan 469(4)
24 April 1999, "Thinking Kantian Thoughts?" 469(1)
Jon's Reply 469(1)
11 May 1999, "Nails and Heads" 470(2)
23 August 1999, "The Point" 472(1)
Jon's Reply 472(1)
31 Letters to Bill Wootters 473(10)
31 October 1997, and to Asher Peres, "Premonition?" 473(1)
21 July 1998, "Quantum Giggles" 473(1)
30 August 1998, "Oh So Close" 474(1)
16 September 1998, "The Aphorism" 475(1)
14 November 1998, "Magic Eight Ball" 475(1)
17 November 1998, "Supplement on Undergrads: In Case It's Useful" 476(1)
02 January 1999, "The Holidays" 476(1)
24 January 1999, "Throwing Away Old Scraps" 477(1)
24 May 1999, "The Consequence of Indeterminism" 477(1)
02 July 1999, "Small Piece of WV" 478(1)
13 July 1999, "Weyling Away My Time" 478(1)
23 July 1999, "Autumn Leaves" 478(2)
Bill's Reply 479(1)
02 August 1999, "Consistent Inconsistencies" 480(1)
20 August 1999, "Echoes" 480(1)
Bill's Reply 481(1)
30 September 1999, "Your Dog" 481(1)
12 February 2000, "Feels Right" 482(1)
13 February 2000, "Zteiner" 482(1)
32 Letters to Anton Zeilinger 483(2)
06 January 1999, "The (Un-)Detached Observer" 483(1)
Anton's Reply 483(1)
11 July 2000, "Need Reference" 484(1)
20 July 2000, "Our Mutual Interest" 484(1)
33 Other Letters 485(49)
11 April 1996, to Michiel van Lambalgen, "Thesis" 485(1)
15 April 1996, to Michiel van Lambalgen, "Getting Started" 486(1)
19 July 1996, to Sam Braunstein, "The Prior" 487(1)
22 January 1997, to Harald Weinfurter, "Random Recall" 488(1)
29 July 1997, to Ken Alder, "Rosenthal Thesis" 488(3)
16 October 1997, to Lucien Hardy, "Wispy Words" 491(1)
10 October 1997, to Eli Yablonovitch, "Entanglement and Correlation" 492(1)
16 October 1997, to Glenn Starkman, "Michelson Lecture Proposal" 493(3)
19 January 1998, to Daniel Kevles, "Herzfeld History" 496(1)
19 January 1998, to Gary Herling, "Herzfeld" 496(1)
22 January 1998, to Alan Hajek, "Bohr was a Bayesian?" 496(1)
14 March 1998, to Ryszard Horodecki, "Jaynes' Principle" 497(1)
05 May 1998, to Ronald Giere, "Quantum Propensity & Quote" 497(1)
05 May 1998, to Ronald Giere, "Propensity Stuff" 498(1)
10 August 1998, to Richard Beyler, "Your Thesis" 499(1)
16 August 1998, to Adan Cabello, "Mermin and His Correlata" 499(1)
19 August 1998, to Richard Cleve, "The Word Entanglement" 500(2)
01 October 1998, to Richard Beyler, "More Pauli" 502(1)
13 October 1998, to Itamar Pitowsky, "Rational Gleason" 503(1)
Itamar's Reply 503(1)
19 October 1998, to John B. Kennedy, "Tensor Products" 503(1)
28 October 1998, to Charles Seife, "Yeeks!" 504(1)
03 November 1998, to Daniel Gottesman, "The Bill Wootters Fan-Club Page" 505(4)
27 November 1998, to Tim Ralph, "Quantum Teleportation: A QND View?" 509(5)
17 April 1999, to Salman Habib, "Tightivity/Quantum Sensitivity" 514(2)
08 June 1999, to Todd Brun, "Information Theoretic Entanglement" 516(1)
03 August 1999, to Alan Fowler, "Landauer Memorial" 517(1)
18 August 1999, to Rob Spekkens, "Modal Stuff" 518(1)
23 August 1999, to Sylvan Schweber, "Living with Law without Law" 518(1)
24 August 1999, to Pawel Wocjan, "Quantum Theory from QKD" 519(1)
24 August 1999, to Dominik Janzing, "Bopp Stuff" 519(1)
07 January 2000, to Jeremy Butterfield, "Page Numbers for Shimony" 520(1)
07 February 2000, to Eugen Merzbacher, "Missing Copenhagen" 520(1)
27 July 2000, to Robert Garisto, "The Zing of Empty Space" 520(1)
14 November 2000, to Steven van Enk, "Always One Theory Behind" 521(1)
14 January 2001, to Rob Pike, "Wispy Sunday" 522(1)
18 January 2001, to Max Tegmark, "100 Years of the Quantum" 522(6)
20 January 2001, to John Smolin, "Shannon Meets Bohr" 528(1)
26 January 2001, to Jeremy Butterfield, "Worlds in the Everett Interpretation" 529(1)
27 January 2001, to David Wallace, "The Test Particle" 530(1)
27 February 2001, to Vaxjo Meeting participants, "Claude Elwood Shannon" 531(1)
Postpartum 532(1)
16 May 2000, "History Reduced to Eight Pages" 532(2)
Index of Names 534
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