Gordon's STEM Blog

Perspectives on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Industries and Education.... along with a little bit of life

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

A Plain-Language Edition of Quantum from the Ground Up

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Einstein called it spooky action at a distance. He meant quantum entanglement, and he thought it couldn't be real. He was wrong! I publ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Brookhaven and Stony Brook Just Linked a Quantum Network Through Open Air

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In my last post , I laid out the fiber problem: quantum networks can't use classical repeaters because the no-cloning theorem forbids co...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

The Fiber Problem: Why Distance Breaks Quantum Networks

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Every quantum network built so far runs into the same wall: how do you move a quantum state across distance without destroying the property ...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

IBM Links Two Quantum Cryostats Toward Fault Tolerance

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Chapter 3 of Quantum from the Ground Up makes one argument: the physics works, and the engineering catches up slowly, one specialized syste...
Friday, August 21, 2026

A Gas Swap Fixes a Manufacturing Problem in Superconducting Qubits

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Chapter 5 of Quantum From The Ground Up covers superconducting qubits: Josephson junctions, the Dolan bridge fabrication technique, and IBM...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

What Mrs. Anderson’s High School Chemistry Class Taught Me About Units

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I found a bunch of posts I started writing years ago but never finished. Here’s one of them.... just finished. I remember Mrs. Anderson at t...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

What Nobody Tells You About AI and Your Water Supply

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Last week during a workshop on AI tools in the classroom at Pace University, a faculty member asked about AI and water use. I expected the q...
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