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July 13, 2008 | Filed Under Miscellaneous | Leave a Comment
There’s an interesting new magazine I picked up recently called SEED. It’s about the intersection of science and culture, implications and other cool tidbits - kind of like Scientific American written by a younger, hipper crowd.
The articles are thought-provoking and well-written. I particularly enjoyed an article about Simon Gröblacher, a Viennese physicist and theorist who is attempting to determine if the principles of quantum mechanics mean that we create the world by observing it. His work builds on the classic thought experiment by Schrödinger: if you put a cat in a sealed box with a flask of poison gas which has a 50/50 chance of being released or not, until you open the box and either observe the cat as alive or dead, it exists in a quantum superposition of being simultaneously alive and dead. Weird stuff, but quite fascinating.
Not only is the content interesting, but the magazin is beautifully designed. The visual representations of data are thoughtful, and the photographs are stunning. If you happen to see it anywhere (I found it at the Minneapolis Airport, so it can’t be all that rare), pick it up, it’s a good read.