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Ben Brubaker

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I’m a science journalist with a background in experimental physics. In October 2022, I joined Quanta Magazine as a staff writer covering theoretical computer…

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2025 2

  1. Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra
  2. Toward the Ideal Elevator Display

2022 4

  1. Why Build a Quantum Transducer?
  2. On Error
  3. Of Lifetimes and Linewidths
  4. Frequency Shifts Do Not Imply Quantum Entanglement

2021 2

  1. Putting the Mechanics in Quantum Mechanics
  2. How Does an Axion Detector Work?

2020 3

  1. How Big is a Billion?
  2. The Uses of Natural Units
  3. About Measuring in Reflection