Peter Hayman
@phayman.bsky.social
Just a theoretical physicist through and through. Sometimes I write about it 👉 haymanphysics.com/blog
Perfect weather for the Upper Harbour regatta
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Perfect weather for the Upper Harbour regatta
Just completely rebuilt my website and realized I never shared my article about time as a thing in physics. If you've ever found the language around time confusing, here's a little primer (and on a shiny new canvas). haymanphysics.com/blog/2025/ti... 🧪 ⚛️ #scicomm
July 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Just completely rebuilt my website and realized I never shared my article about time as a thing in physics. If you've ever found the language around time confusing, here's a little primer (and on a shiny new canvas). haymanphysics.com/blog/2025/ti... 🧪 ⚛️ #scicomm
I don't know if this exactly makes sense, but I feel like Tokyo is *casually* beautiful.
May 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I don't know if this exactly makes sense, but I feel like Tokyo is *casually* beautiful.
Just *felt* I had to grab one of these :P
May 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Just *felt* I had to grab one of these :P
May 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Great talk from Quantum Brilliance. I'll have to look more into them later; looks promising but a little too good to be true (no mention of the downsides, so there must be some big ones).
March 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Great talk from Quantum Brilliance. I'll have to look more into them later; looks promising but a little too good to be true (no mention of the downsides, so there must be some big ones).
I think this #cisco guy asked an AI to write a talk for him with every cliche and terrible take on quantum computing it could possibly find. Mission accomplished, I guess.
March 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I think this #cisco guy asked an AI to write a talk for him with every cliche and terrible take on quantum computing it could possibly find. Mission accomplished, I guess.
More absolute trash about the "exponential storage" of qubits. Go ahead, store all that data in a quantum state, you'll love losing it all when you read it out.
March 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
More absolute trash about the "exponential storage" of qubits. Go ahead, store all that data in a quantum state, you'll love losing it all when you read it out.
March 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
So very tired of quantum computing people showing old classical computers to make a point. The first classical computers were big because they *could* be, because big simple things could work as bits. Quantum computers don't have that luxury, qubits *have* to be tiny.
March 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
So very tired of quantum computing people showing old classical computers to make a point. The first classical computers were big because they *could* be, because big simple things could work as bits. Quantum computers don't have that luxury, qubits *have* to be tiny.
Short version: it's a bubble and they're proud of it.
Long: "end-users" are just investors and governments are the best. Government $$$ leads to private $$$ leads to government "procurement" (aka $$$) leads to more private $$$, etc. all without a real product. What do you think, Bubble or Ponzi?
Long: "end-users" are just investors and governments are the best. Government $$$ leads to private $$$ leads to government "procurement" (aka $$$) leads to more private $$$, etc. all without a real product. What do you think, Bubble or Ponzi?
March 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Short version: it's a bubble and they're proud of it.
Long: "end-users" are just investors and governments are the best. Government $$$ leads to private $$$ leads to government "procurement" (aka $$$) leads to more private $$$, etc. all without a real product. What do you think, Bubble or Ponzi?
Long: "end-users" are just investors and governments are the best. Government $$$ leads to private $$$ leads to government "procurement" (aka $$$) leads to more private $$$, etc. all without a real product. What do you think, Bubble or Ponzi?
"Global economic frameworks" seems to be *lots* of government funding for "startups" to optimistically do academic work.
Keywords "global" and "nascent" conspicuously replace "clear tangible objectives."
Keywords "global" and "nascent" conspicuously replace "clear tangible objectives."
March 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
"Global economic frameworks" seems to be *lots* of government funding for "startups" to optimistically do academic work.
Keywords "global" and "nascent" conspicuously replace "clear tangible objectives."
Keywords "global" and "nascent" conspicuously replace "clear tangible objectives."
March 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I have the strangest relationship with #invincible.
I *love* this show, it's phenomenal. S3 staying strong.
But I completely forget it between seasons. I can't even explain why it's so good, it just... is.
I *love* this show, it's phenomenal. S3 staying strong.
But I completely forget it between seasons. I can't even explain why it's so good, it just... is.
March 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I have the strangest relationship with #invincible.
I *love* this show, it's phenomenal. S3 staying strong.
But I completely forget it between seasons. I can't even explain why it's so good, it just... is.
I *love* this show, it's phenomenal. S3 staying strong.
But I completely forget it between seasons. I can't even explain why it's so good, it just... is.
See the middle of this blob of gelatin? It's clearly very stressed, but it's not so clear what that means in terms of simple forces and shapes. If the blob were a quantum thing, we would say it was in an #entangled state. Read more about that here: haymanphysics.com/blog/2025/qm3
🧪 ⚛️ #scicomm
🧪 ⚛️ #scicomm
March 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
See the middle of this blob of gelatin? It's clearly very stressed, but it's not so clear what that means in terms of simple forces and shapes. If the blob were a quantum thing, we would say it was in an #entangled state. Read more about that here: haymanphysics.com/blog/2025/qm3
🧪 ⚛️ #scicomm
🧪 ⚛️ #scicomm
Finally back in the water (after our little oopsie a few months ago :P)
February 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Finally back in the water (after our little oopsie a few months ago :P)
Wet and windy, but a great day out on the water with the classic yacht Ethel (built in 1896).
February 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Wet and windy, but a great day out on the water with the classic yacht Ethel (built in 1896).
Almost done my little series on the "why of #quantumcomputing," (haymanphysics.com/blog/categor...) but it's a bit more ambitious than the others so it's taking longer. In the meantime, enjoy this little piece I call "classical #entanglement". 🧪
February 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Almost done my little series on the "why of #quantumcomputing," (haymanphysics.com/blog/categor...) but it's a bit more ambitious than the others so it's taking longer. In the meantime, enjoy this little piece I call "classical #entanglement". 🧪
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A little fun geometric optics on the water! (Sundog between the shrouds).
January 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A little fun geometric optics on the water! (Sundog between the shrouds).