Whurley, Physics, and the Strange Work of Quantum Computing in Austin

Is the world ready to take a quantum leap?

"...coffee shop. But you'd be wrong. It's actually a quantum computing startup with a name seemingly ripped from an..."

April 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Tom Cheredar

Moseying Out Into the Multiverse With the Quantum Cowboys

Geoff Marslett probes memory and the many-worlds theory in his new animated mind-bender at AFS Cinema

"...or everything in sepia. And in his new film, Quantum Cowboys, director Geoff Marslett uses animation and a tale..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Quantum Computing 101: A Beginner’s Guide to the Mind-Bending New Technology

"...Have you heard the term "quantum computing" thrown around thousands of times over the years,..."

April 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Tom Cheredar

What the #$*! Do We Know!?

Quantum physics, intent and possibility, science and fantasy … goofy cult or educational primer?

"...the lay audience everything there is to know about quantum physics in 108 minutes. It employs a vertiginous collection..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Water

Don't come to this movie expecting a doom-and-gloom forecast about ecological catastrophe. It's instead an encounter with "voodoo chemistry" that aims to show why we all should start imbibing "structurized water."

"...and if it reminds you of the approach to quantum physics of another movie, What the #$*! Do We..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, is truly a spiritual leader for the 21st century.

"...for the 21st century, His Holiness is fascinated by quantum physics and mechanical objects, which he disassembles and studies..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene Has a Few New Dimensions He'd Like You to Meet

The universe-explainer brings his 'Hidden Reality' show to Austin

"...Greene, renowned proponent of quantum string theory and parallel universes, has fanboys and fangirls..."

Jan. 16, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan's roaring, terrifying, and carnal tale of the father of the atom bomb

"...Oppenheimer quits Cambridge to study the new discipline of quantum physics in Germany: a decision that ultimately leads to..."

July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bedside Manner: Science Lesson

How I learned that I know next to nothing

"...me Why Does E=mc2 and the mysteries of The Quantum Universe left me stranded only a few chapters in,..."

Dec. 10, 2012 Books Post by Lauren Tucker

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

S.H.I.T. – So Happy It's Thursday blurbs

"...8pm, Quantum Lounge Texas shriek continues to rise in the form..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

My Darling Supermarket

Brazilian documentary is marginally less fun than grocery shopping

"...in cosplay. Another baker has interests in ancient aliens, quantum physics, and Orwell. Through her bank of monitors, a..."

March 12, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Penguin Highway

A wonderful anime adventure into childhood ... with lots of adorable penguins

"...logical. What's happening is somewhere between magical realism and quantum physics, as Aoyoma puts his budding brain to work..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Captain Fantastic

Viggo Mortensen and family go off the grid

"...nurtures their minds by versing them in Marxist theory, quantum physics, and Vladimir Nabokov, and trains their bodies to..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

'Coherence' Makes a Multiverse Out of Nothing

Micro-microbudget mindbender makes every restriction a virtue

"...a phenomenal ensemble cast, improvising a night in traumatic quantum physics, that keeps the narrative moving. When it finally..."

Sept. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Waking Life

This animated journey through one character's dreams is a stirring, motivational, and metaphysical head trip.

"...raucously surreal -- the head of an academic discussing quantum physics morphs into a gear with glasses, another man..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Myth and Tech Merge for the SXSW Art Program

Technology becomes the new enchantment in Mixanthropy

"...in collaboration with EY Metaverse Lab and NEW INC. Quantum Jungle (Hilton Downtown, Room 410) is interactive, an installation..."

March 10, 2023 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Totally Killer Time With Nahnatchka Khan

Director of the new horror comedy on time travel and more

"...2023 is going back in time, I'm not a quantum scientist so I can't have a chalkboard moment where..."

Oct. 9, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Zach Theatre's Heisenberg

In Simon Stephens' play, we observe the unlikely pairing of two people as an experiment in risk and change

"...a tangible force capable of affecting the behavior of quantum particles, though in what way it's impossible to predict...."

July 6, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Turning the Page on the Year in Books

New works by Cormac McCarthy and Sarah Bird make for a memorable year in literature

"...the talking to others, topics of discussion range from quantum physics to the JFK assassination to who might be..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 8-14

"...emotional intelligence. They may quote Shakespeare and discourse on quantum physics and explain the difference between the philosophies of..."

May 8, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...According to psychic Jeanne Mayell, technological discoveries bridging quantum physics will be made in 2019...."

Dec. 28, 2018 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Chronicle Recommends: The Best of Austin

Our recommendations of the finest movies from and about the ATX

"...nearly vanished, too. An inspiring animated amble through philosophy, quantum physics, film theory, and dreams vs. reality, Waking Life..."

Nov. 4, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

MAD's Greatest Writers: Frank Jacobs

Collecting 50 years of the satire that's made MAD the preferred reading of smarty-pants fifth-graders everywhere

"...by rocketing over the heads of 10-year-olds everywhere like quantum physics. If Frank Jacobs' five decades with the satirical..."

June 12, 2015 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Nick Broomfield Tells Tales of the Grim Sleeper

Filmmaker talks about his new HBO doc, LA, race, and death

"...the middle of a prison. It's documentary film as quantum physics: Broomfield's presence shapes the shooting and what answers..."

April 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Kenjutsu: The Art of the Sword

The Hideout improvises tales of samurai battle and broken honor

"...Because there were all these metaphors about jazz, and quantum physics, and botany, and several other things...."

March 28, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Jake Gyllenhaal Is An Axe Murderer

Right now through the prism of actors in music videos

"...world has been duplicated and morphed, existing in some quantum physics reality of “every possibility all at once.”..."

Jan. 22, 2014 Music Post by Lexie Maravich

DVDanger: '+1'

Teen parties and time loops merge to surprising effect

"...they really duplicates, or is there a much more quantum-physics, string theory reason behind why everyone seems to be..."

Jan. 18, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: Amber's Question

The question 'What's your favorite word?' launches a contemplative journey toward the answer

"...In the West, we had to evolve relativity and quantum physics to begin a science of relations, a science..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Look/Book

Scenes from the 2010 Texas Book Festival

"...though, the establishment caught on. "It took a little quantum physics and chaos theory to explain."..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM

All those brilliant 'financial instruments' turned into monsters that no one can stop

"...Relativity and quantum physics are marvelous, but they also create atomic bombs...."

Oct. 10, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

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