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Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Quantum Information Theory w/ Shaun Maguire

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2015

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Cara gets a lesson in quantum information theory from Caltech graduate student and entrepreneur Shaun Maguire. Shaun schools her in the real definition of quantum, along with how new developments in Stephen Hawking's black hole information paradox are rocking the physics world.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. Welcome to Talk Nurdy. I'm your host Kara Santa Maria and I want to give a shout out to those amazing listeners who are

0:16.0

helping to support the podcast by going to patreon.com slash talk nerdy and

0:22.1

pledging just a little bit to help keep us 100% free to

0:27.4

download. I want to start by thanking Greg Rogers and Ron Noblock. Thank you so much for your incredibly generous

0:35.2

donations. I will send you your goodies in the mail very soon. Just as

0:39.1

soon as the month is over you will get those. I also want to thank Rob Barcy Brian Holden Jeffrey Sewell and

0:46.4

Chuck Pell for your generous donations and meanwhile over there on PayPal I want to thank Megan Proust. You guys are amazing. If you're

0:57.1

interested in supporting the show you can head to Kara Santa Maria.com and

1:02.2

you'll see some links there on the site or you can go straight to

1:05.0

patreon.com slash talk nerdy.

1:08.8

All right guys I am really excited about this week's podcast episode. I had a chance to sit down with just an

1:15.6

incredibly intelligent dude. We have a great chat. Some of it I get a little bit lost

1:21.2

on. You might too, but you know what, you're going to learn something too, and just fabulous.

1:26.0

He's an entrepreneur and he's also a graduate student at Caltech who is studying quantum information theory.

1:33.4

Here he is, Sean McGuire.

1:35.6

Sean,

1:38.0

Welcome to Talk Nurdy.

1:39.0

Thanks for having me here, Kara.

1:40.8

I am so excited.

1:42.2

I've shown you around my fabulous apartment.

1:45.0

Fabulous. It's, I find it fabulous because it's filled with dinosaurs.

1:49.0

There are lots of dinosaurs and then there's also a killer. Killer is the most fabulous part of the

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