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Knots in Washington XXXVIII: 30 years of the Jones polynomial
May 9-11, 2014
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski (UT Dallas), Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU and UMCP), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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The Paradoxical IT
by
Samuel Lomonaco
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)

Since early antiquity, philosophers have spoken of IT (i.e., the physical world), or NOT IT. Einstein insisted on a DEFINITE IT with his Principle of Reality and Principle of Locality. In this talk, we illustrate the paradoxical IT with the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) paradox. We will begin by first describing a physical device, and then prove that it cannot be built. Next we show how to build this very same device using the laws of quantum mechanics. Is IT ambiguous?

Date received: May 8, 2014

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