Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction to the Cambridge University Press Edition
- Introduction to the Original ArXiv.org Posting
- Disclaimers
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Letters to David Baker
- 2 Letters to Howard Baker
- 3 Letters to Howard Barnum
- 4 Letters to Paul Benioff
- 5 Letters to Charlie Bennett
- 6 Letters to Herb Bernstein
- 7 Letters to Doug Bilodeau
- 8 Letters to Gilles Brassard
- 9 Letters to Jeffrey Bub
- 10 Letters to Carlton Caves
- 11 Letters to Greg Comer
- 12 Letters to Charles Enz
- 13 Letters to Henry Folse
- 14 Letters to Bob Griffiths
- 15 Letters to Adrian Kent
- 16 Letters to Rolf Landauer
- 17 Letters to Hideo Mabuchi
- 18 Letters to David Mermin
- 19 Letters to David Meyer
- 20 Letters to Jeff Nicholson
- 21 Letters to Michael Nielsen
- 22 Letters to Asher Peres
- 23 Diary of a Carefully Worded Paper: More Letters to Asher Peres
- 24 Letters to John Preskill
- 25 Letters to Joseph Renes
- 26 Letters to Mary Beth Ruskai
- 27 Letters to Rüdiger Schack
- 28 Letters to Robert Schumann
- 29 Letters to Abner Shimony
- 30 Letters to Jon Waskan
- 31 Letters to Bill Wootters
- 32 Letters to Anton Zeilinger
- 33 Other Letters
- Postpartum
- Index of Names
17 - Letters to Hideo Mabuchi
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction to the Cambridge University Press Edition
- Introduction to the Original ArXiv.org Posting
- Disclaimers
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Letters to David Baker
- 2 Letters to Howard Baker
- 3 Letters to Howard Barnum
- 4 Letters to Paul Benioff
- 5 Letters to Charlie Bennett
- 6 Letters to Herb Bernstein
- 7 Letters to Doug Bilodeau
- 8 Letters to Gilles Brassard
- 9 Letters to Jeffrey Bub
- 10 Letters to Carlton Caves
- 11 Letters to Greg Comer
- 12 Letters to Charles Enz
- 13 Letters to Henry Folse
- 14 Letters to Bob Griffiths
- 15 Letters to Adrian Kent
- 16 Letters to Rolf Landauer
- 17 Letters to Hideo Mabuchi
- 18 Letters to David Mermin
- 19 Letters to David Meyer
- 20 Letters to Jeff Nicholson
- 21 Letters to Michael Nielsen
- 22 Letters to Asher Peres
- 23 Diary of a Carefully Worded Paper: More Letters to Asher Peres
- 24 Letters to John Preskill
- 25 Letters to Joseph Renes
- 26 Letters to Mary Beth Ruskai
- 27 Letters to Rüdiger Schack
- 28 Letters to Robert Schumann
- 29 Letters to Abner Shimony
- 30 Letters to Jon Waskan
- 31 Letters to Bill Wootters
- 32 Letters to Anton Zeilinger
- 33 Other Letters
- Postpartum
- Index of Names
Summary
November 1997, “Martha White and Her Flour”
[Note: Words supplied by Greg Comer. See notes to Asher Peres, dated 17 October 1997, Greg Comer, dated 25 November 1997, and Carlton Caves, dated 21 December 1997.]
Martha White Theme Song
(Open with a Banjo break by Earl Scruggs)
(Next, come in with Lester Flatt singing…)
Now you bake right,
(other band members respond:) ah ha,
With Martha White,
(band response:) yes ma'am,
Goodness gracious, good and light,
With Martha White.
Now you bake better biscuits, cakes, and pies,
With Martha White Self-Risin' Flour,
(band response:) that one all-purpose flour,
With Martha White Self-Risin' Flour
You've done all right!
(Finish with an Earl Scruggs banjo solo.)
October 1998, “Oh Magic Eight Ball”
Democritus said, “All the world is but Atom and Void.” I've decided (with Kiki's help) that I much more like the metaphor, “All the world is but Magic Eight Balls and Questions.” See the resemblance? You couldn't have atom without void; but you could have void without atom. You couldn't have Questions without Magic Eight Balls; but you could have Magic Eight Balls without Questions. The sole remainder of archaic atomism is that “atoms” be “repositories.” Not repositories of “properties.” But repositories of answers to the questions we might ask. To keep these sentences from being contradictory, those answers can't exist before we ask them (else they be properties).
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- Coming of Age With Quantum InformationNotes on a Paulian Idea, pp. 215 - 216Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011