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What Is Real?

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	<font color="red">'''[Timeframe:   May 2019]'''</font> I am definitely not an authority on quantum mechanics (see my [[User:Tohline#Joel_E._Tohline\|brief bio]]), but I have for some time been interested in interpretations of the wave function. In an [[User:Tohline/Appendix/CGH/QuantumTransitions#Speculation_Regarding_Quantum_Transitions\|accompanying ''Ramblings Appendix'' chapter]], I am exploring how this interest might be effectively coupled with my quantitative understanding of digital holography. Very shortly after I began recording in this ''MediaWiki'' environment my speculative thoughts on this topic, I stumbled upon a book review published in ''Science'' (see Vol. 359, Issue 6383, dated 30 March 2018) by Mélanie Frappier. The book review, itself, carried the title, ''Questioning quantum mechanics,'' and it focused on the book by Adam Becker titled, [https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/adam-becker/what-is-real/9780465096053/ "What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics" (2018, Basic Books)]. To my delight, I found this book at the main branch of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading it for two principal reasons:		<font color="red">'''[Timeframe:   May 2019]'''</font> I am definitely not an authority on quantum mechanics (see my [[User:Tohline#Joel_E._Tohline\|brief bio]]), but I have for some time been interested in interpretations of the wave function. In an [[User:Tohline/Appendix/CGH/QuantumTransitions#Speculation_Regarding_Quantum_Transitions\|accompanying ''Ramblings Appendix'' chapter]], I am exploring how this interest might be effectively coupled with my quantitative understanding of digital holography. Very shortly after I began recording in this ''MediaWiki'' environment my speculative thoughts on this topic, I stumbled upon a book review published in ''Science'' (see Vol. 359, Issue 6383, dated 30 March 2018) by Mélanie Frappier. The book review, itself, carried the title, ''Questioning quantum mechanics,'' and it focused on the book by [http://freelanceastrophysicist.com Adam Becker] titled, [https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/adam-becker/what-is-real/9780465096053/ "What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics" (2018, Basic Books)]. To my delight, I found this book at the main branch of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading it for two principal reasons:
	* In his historical recounting of the development of quantum theory, from its infancy all the way up to the present time, Becker describes numerous scientific discoveries and associated philosophical discussions at a level that is perfectly pitched for me, given my own background.		* In his historical recounting of the development of quantum theory, from its infancy all the way up to the present time, Becker describes numerous scientific discoveries and associated philosophical discussions at a level that is perfectly pitched for me, given my own background.
	* He highlights contributions that have been made over the years by individuals whom I have known personally, in the context of professional settings with which I am familiar.		* He highlights contributions that have been made over the years by individuals whom I have known personally, in the context of professional settings with which I am familiar.

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Yale, Columbia, and the GISS

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	It was fun to find out that John Clauser first became aware of J. S. Bell's theoretical prediction regarding quantum measurements ''in the same building'' — albeit a dozen years earlier — as the one where I had carried out some of my computational simulations early in my professional career. And, although I knew that Pat Thaddeus had been using radio telescopes mounted on the top of buildings in Manhattan to study the properties of interstellar gas clouds, this excerpt from Becker's chapter 9 makes it clear that it was Thaddeus' desire to study the CMB that initially drove him to construct his Manhattan-based radio-frequency detectors.		It was fun to find out that John Clauser first became aware of J. S. Bell's theoretical prediction regarding quantum measurements ''in the same building'' — albeit a dozen years earlier — as the one where I had carried out some of my computational simulations early in my professional career. And, although I knew that Pat Thaddeus had been using radio telescopes mounted on the top of buildings in Manhattan to study the properties of interstellar gas clouds, this excerpt from Becker's chapter 9 makes it clear that it was Thaddeus' desire to study the CMB that initially drove him to construct his Manhattan-based radio-frequency detectors.

			I should add that I am sincerely grateful to [names withheld] for allowing me to spend a night or two with them in their compact Manhattan apartment the several different times that I was using the GISS computing resources. (Otherwise the "gift" of computing time at GISS would have been unaffordable to me.) [Name withheld's] and my time as UCSC graduate students had overlapped and he was in a postdoctoral position in the Columbia University astronomy department while I was at Yale. [Name withheld] went on to have a successful academic career in astronomy.

	==Los Alamos National Laboratory==		==Los Alamos National Laboratory==

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Louisiana State University

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	In 1982 I joined the faculty in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Louisiana State University (LSU). I learned that, on a number of different occasions throughout the decade of the 70s, <font color="orange">Eugene Wigner</font> would leave Princeton (in the fall?) and spend a few months at LSU interacting primarily with physicists in the condensed-matter and atomic theory programs. From what I have been able to ascertain from Wigner's published ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hj1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=roger+richardson+and+eugene+wigner&source=bl&ots=KXnb0OfiWZ&sig=ACfU3U1rBwCN1IU9e9lV_73pcTGzp3q07w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi11MjC563iAhWCvp4KHX6SC5oQ6AEwCHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=roger%20richardson%20and%20eugene%20wigner&f=false Recollections]'', he was initially invited to LSU by the dean of LSU's Engineering College, Roger Richardson, who, like Wigner, had been personally involved in the Manhattan project during World War II. It seems clear as well, however, that part of the draw was an opportunity for Wigner to extend his research interactions with [https://www.lsu.edu/physics/alumni/callaway.php Joseph Callaway] — see, also, [http://theor.jinr.ru/~kuzemsky/callawbio.html here] — who completed his doctoral dissertation research in 1956 under Wigner's direction.		In 1982 I joined the faculty in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Louisiana State University (LSU). I learned that, on a number of different occasions throughout the decade of the 70s, <font color="orange">Eugene Wigner</font> would leave Princeton (in the fall?) and spend a few months at LSU interacting primarily with physicists in the condensed-matter and atomic theory programs. From what I have been able to ascertain from Wigner's published ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hj1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=roger+richardson+and+eugene+wigner&source=bl&ots=KXnb0OfiWZ&sig=ACfU3U1rBwCN1IU9e9lV_73pcTGzp3q07w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi11MjC563iAhWCvp4KHX6SC5oQ6AEwCHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=roger%20richardson%20and%20eugene%20wigner&f=false Recollections]'', he was initially invited to LSU by the dean of LSU's Engineering College, Roger Richardson, who, like Wigner, had been personally involved in the Manhattan project during World War II. It seems clear as well, however, that part of the draw was an opportunity for Wigner to extend his research interactions with [https://www.lsu.edu/physics/alumni/callaway.php Joseph Callaway] — see, also, [http://theor.jinr.ru/~kuzemsky/callawbio.html here] — who completed his doctoral dissertation research in 1956 under Wigner's direction.

	During the early 80s, Wigner made one last extended visit to LSU; it was either during the 1982-83 or 1983-84 academic year. I happened to be scheduled to give a routine departmental seminar that semester and, given the stories that I had heard about Wigner's probing questions, I was a bit nervous when I found out that he would likely be in the audience. The topic of my presentation was galaxy dynamics and, sure enough, relatively early in my presentation, Wigner asked a question. He asked me to clarify what I had just said about the aspect ratios of disk galaxies and the overall linear dimensions involved. After I answered this question, he replied in his heavy Hungarian accent, "Verrrry interesting. I did not know that." He told me afterward that he had enjoyed the talk. I remember this brief interaction ~~warmly~~.		During the early 80s, Wigner made one last extended visit to LSU; it was either during the 1982-83 or 1983-84 academic year. I happened to be scheduled to give a routine departmental seminar that semester and, given the stories that I had heard about Wigner's probing questions, I was a bit nervous when I found out that he would likely be in the audience. The topic of my presentation was galaxy dynamics and, sure enough, relatively early in my presentation, Wigner asked a question. He asked me to clarify what I had just said about the aspect ratios of disk galaxies and the overall linear dimensions involved. After I answered this question, he replied in his heavy Hungarian accent, "Verrrry interesting. I did not know that." He told me afterward that he had enjoyed the talk. I warmly remember this brief interaction with Professor Wigner.

	=See Also=		=See Also=

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Louisiana State University

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	In 1982 I joined the faculty in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Louisiana State University (LSU). I learned that, on a number of different occasions throughout the decade of the 70s, <font color="orange">Eugene Wigner</font> would leave Princeton (in the fall?) and spend a few months at LSU interacting primarily with physicists in the condensed-matter and atomic theory programs. From what I have been able to ascertain from Wigner's published ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hj1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=roger+richardson+and+eugene+wigner&source=bl&ots=KXnb0OfiWZ&sig=ACfU3U1rBwCN1IU9e9lV_73pcTGzp3q07w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi11MjC563iAhWCvp4KHX6SC5oQ6AEwCHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=roger%20richardson%20and%20eugene%20wigner&f=false Recollections]'', he was initially invited to LSU by the dean of LSU's Engineering College, Roger Richardson, who, like Wigner, had been personally involved in the Manhattan project during World War II. It seems clear as well, however, that part of the draw was an opportunity for Wigner to extend his research interactions with [https://www.lsu.edu/physics/alumni/callaway.php Joseph Callaway] — see, also, [http://theor.jinr.ru/~kuzemsky/callawbio.html here] — who completed his doctoral dissertation research in 1956 under Wigner's direction.		In 1982 I joined the faculty in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Louisiana State University (LSU). I learned that, on a number of different occasions throughout the decade of the 70s, <font color="orange">Eugene Wigner</font> would leave Princeton (in the fall?) and spend a few months at LSU interacting primarily with physicists in the condensed-matter and atomic theory programs. From what I have been able to ascertain from Wigner's published ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hj1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=roger+richardson+and+eugene+wigner&source=bl&ots=KXnb0OfiWZ&sig=ACfU3U1rBwCN1IU9e9lV_73pcTGzp3q07w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi11MjC563iAhWCvp4KHX6SC5oQ6AEwCHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=roger%20richardson%20and%20eugene%20wigner&f=false Recollections]'', he was initially invited to LSU by the dean of LSU's Engineering College, Roger Richardson, who, like Wigner, had been personally involved in the Manhattan project during World War II. It seems clear as well, however, that part of the draw was an opportunity for Wigner to extend his research interactions with [https://www.lsu.edu/physics/alumni/callaway.php Joseph Callaway] — see, also, [http://theor.jinr.ru/~kuzemsky/callawbio.html here] — who completed his doctoral dissertation research in 1956 under Wigner's direction.

	During the early 80s, Wigner made one last extended visit to LSU; it was either during the 1982-83 or 1983-84 academic year. I happened to be scheduled to give a routine departmental seminar that semester and, given the stories that I had heard about Wigner's probing questions, I was a bit nervous when I found out that he would likely be in the audience. The topic of my presentation was galaxy dynamics and, sure enough, relatively early in my presentation, Wigner asked a question. He asked me to clarify what I had just said about the aspect ratios of disk galaxies and the overall linear dimensions involved. After I answered this question, he replied in his ~~stiff~~ Hungarian accent, "Verrrry interesting. I did not know that." He told me afterward that he had enjoyed the talk. I remember this brief interaction warmly.		During the early 80s, Wigner made one last extended visit to LSU; it was either during the 1982-83 or 1983-84 academic year. I happened to be scheduled to give a routine departmental seminar that semester and, given the stories that I had heard about Wigner's probing questions, I was a bit nervous when I found out that he would likely be in the audience. The topic of my presentation was galaxy dynamics and, sure enough, relatively early in my presentation, Wigner asked a question. He asked me to clarify what I had just said about the aspect ratios of disk galaxies and the overall linear dimensions involved. After I answered this question, he replied in his heavy Hungarian accent, "Verrrry interesting. I did not know that." He told me afterward that he had enjoyed the talk. I remember this brief interaction warmly.

	=See Also=		=See Also=

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Louisiana State University

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	In 1982 I joined the faculty in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Louisiana State University (LSU). I learned that, on a number of different occasions throughout the decade of the 70s, <font color="orange">Eugene Wigner</font> would leave Princeton (in the fall?) and spend a few months at LSU interacting primarily with physicists in the condensed-matter and atomic theory programs. From what I have been able to ascertain from Wigner's published ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hj1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=roger+richardson+and+eugene+wigner&source=bl&ots=KXnb0OfiWZ&sig=ACfU3U1rBwCN1IU9e9lV_73pcTGzp3q07w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi11MjC563iAhWCvp4KHX6SC5oQ6AEwCHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=roger%20richardson%20and%20eugene%20wigner&f=false Recollections]'', he was initially invited to LSU by the dean of LSU's Engineering College, Roger Richardson, who, like Wigner, had been personally involved in the Manhattan project during World War II. It seems clear as well, however, that part of the draw was an opportunity for Wigner to extend his research interactions with [https://www.lsu.edu/physics/alumni/callaway.php Joseph Callaway] — see, also, [http://theor.jinr.ru/~kuzemsky/callawbio.html here] — who completed his doctoral dissertation research in 1956 under Wigner's direction.		In 1982 I joined the faculty in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Louisiana State University (LSU). I learned that, on a number of different occasions throughout the decade of the 70s, <font color="orange">Eugene Wigner</font> would leave Princeton (in the fall?) and spend a few months at LSU interacting primarily with physicists in the condensed-matter and atomic theory programs. From what I have been able to ascertain from Wigner's published ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hj1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=roger+richardson+and+eugene+wigner&source=bl&ots=KXnb0OfiWZ&sig=ACfU3U1rBwCN1IU9e9lV_73pcTGzp3q07w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi11MjC563iAhWCvp4KHX6SC5oQ6AEwCHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=roger%20richardson%20and%20eugene%20wigner&f=false Recollections]'', he was initially invited to LSU by the dean of LSU's Engineering College, Roger Richardson, who, like Wigner, had been personally involved in the Manhattan project during World War II. It seems clear as well, however, that part of the draw was an opportunity for Wigner to extend his research interactions with [https://www.lsu.edu/physics/alumni/callaway.php Joseph Callaway] — see, also, [http://theor.jinr.ru/~kuzemsky/callawbio.html here] — who completed his doctoral dissertation research in 1956 under Wigner's direction.

	During the early 80s, Wigner made one last extended visit to LSU; it was either during the 1982-83 or 1983-84 academic year. I happened to be scheduled to give a routine departmental seminar that semester and, given the stories that I had heard about Wigner's probing questions, I was a bit nervous when I found out that he would likely be in the audience. The topic of my presentation was galaxy dynamics and, sure enough, relatively early in my presentation, Wigner asked a question. He asked me to clarify what I had just said about the aspect ratios of disk galaxies and the overall linear dimensions involved. After I answered this question, he replied in his stiff Hungarian accent, "Verrrry interesting. I did not know that." He told me afterward that he enjoyed the talk. I remember this brief interaction warmly.		During the early 80s, Wigner made one last extended visit to LSU; it was either during the 1982-83 or 1983-84 academic year. I happened to be scheduled to give a routine departmental seminar that semester and, given the stories that I had heard about Wigner's probing questions, I was a bit nervous when I found out that he would likely be in the audience. The topic of my presentation was galaxy dynamics and, sure enough, relatively early in my presentation, Wigner asked a question. He asked me to clarify what I had just said about the aspect ratios of disk galaxies and the overall linear dimensions involved. After I answered this question, he replied in his stiff Hungarian accent, "Verrrry interesting. I did not know that." He told me afterward that he had enjoyed the talk. I remember this brief interaction warmly.

	=See Also=		=See Also=

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Louisiana State University

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	==Louisiana State University==		==Louisiana State University==

	In 1982 I joined the faculty in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Louisiana State University (LSU). I learned that, on a number of different occasions throughout the decade of the 70s, <font color="orange">Eugene Wigner</font> would leave Princeton (in the fall?) and spend a few months at LSU interacting primarily with physicists in the condensed-matter and atomic theory programs. From what I have been able to ascertain from Wigner's published ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hj1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=roger+richardson+and+eugene+wigner&source=bl&ots=KXnb0OfiWZ&sig=ACfU3U1rBwCN1IU9e9lV_73pcTGzp3q07w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi11MjC563iAhWCvp4KHX6SC5oQ6AEwCHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=roger%20richardson%20and%20eugene%20wigner&f=false Recollections]'', he was initially invited to LSU by the dean of LSU's Engineering College, Roger Richardson, who, like Wigner, had been personally involved in the Manhattan project during World War II. It seems clear as well, however, that part of the draw was an opportunity for Wigner to extend his research interactions with [https://www.lsu.edu/physics/alumni/callaway.php Joseph Callaway], who completed his doctoral dissertation research in 1956 under Wigner's ~~dirction~~.		In 1982 I joined the faculty in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Louisiana State University (LSU). I learned that, on a number of different occasions throughout the decade of the 70s, <font color="orange">Eugene Wigner</font> would leave Princeton (in the fall?) and spend a few months at LSU interacting primarily with physicists in the condensed-matter and atomic theory programs. From what I have been able to ascertain from Wigner's published ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hj1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=roger+richardson+and+eugene+wigner&source=bl&ots=KXnb0OfiWZ&sig=ACfU3U1rBwCN1IU9e9lV_73pcTGzp3q07w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi11MjC563iAhWCvp4KHX6SC5oQ6AEwCHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=roger%20richardson%20and%20eugene%20wigner&f=false Recollections]'', he was initially invited to LSU by the dean of LSU's Engineering College, Roger Richardson, who, like Wigner, had been personally involved in the Manhattan project during World War II. It seems clear as well, however, that part of the draw was an opportunity for Wigner to extend his research interactions with [https://www.lsu.edu/physics/alumni/callaway.php Joseph Callaway] — see, also, [http://theor.jinr.ru/~kuzemsky/callawbio.html here] — who completed his doctoral dissertation research in 1956 under Wigner's direction.

			During the early 80s, Wigner made one last extended visit to LSU; it was either during the 1982-83 or 1983-84 academic year. I happened to be scheduled to give a routine departmental seminar that semester and, given the stories that I had heard about Wigner's probing questions, I was a bit nervous when I found out that he would likely be in the audience. The topic of my presentation was galaxy dynamics and, sure enough, relatively early in my presentation, Wigner asked a question. He asked me to clarify what I had just said about the aspect ratios of disk galaxies and the overall linear dimensions involved. After I answered this question, he replied in his stiff Hungarian accent, "Verrrry interesting. I did not know that." He told me afterward that he enjoyed the talk. I remember this brief interaction warmly.

	=See Also=		=See Also=

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What Is Real?

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	About the time I was departing LANL in 1982, a new postdoc was hired into Group T-6, but this time the position was being funded via the Lab's ''J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow'' program. The new, young researcher was <font color="orange">Wojciech Zurek</font>. Over the next few years, I was aware that Zurek had collaborated with another T-6 postdoc, Willy Benz, to model the development of nonaxisymmetric structure in astrophysical accretion disks — see, for example, [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJ...308..123Z/abstract this article]. But it was not until I read Adam Becker's account of Zurek's work (see pp. 228 - 231) that I became aware of Zurek's worldwide prominence as a researcher in the area of Quantum Fundamentals.		About the time I was departing LANL in 1982, a new postdoc was hired into Group T-6, but this time the position was being funded via the Lab's ''J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow'' program. The new, young researcher was <font color="orange">Wojciech Zurek</font>. Over the next few years, I was aware that Zurek had collaborated with another T-6 postdoc, Willy Benz, to model the development of nonaxisymmetric structure in astrophysical accretion disks — see, for example, [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJ...308..123Z/abstract this article]. But it was not until I read Adam Becker's account of Zurek's work (see pp. 228 - 231) that I became aware of Zurek's worldwide prominence as a researcher in the area of Quantum Fundamentals.

			==Louisiana State University==

			In 1982 I joined the faculty in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Louisiana State University (LSU). I learned that, on a number of different occasions throughout the decade of the 70s, <font color="orange">Eugene Wigner</font> would leave Princeton (in the fall?) and spend a few months at LSU interacting primarily with physicists in the condensed-matter and atomic theory programs. From what I have been able to ascertain from Wigner's published ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hj1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=roger+richardson+and+eugene+wigner&source=bl&ots=KXnb0OfiWZ&sig=ACfU3U1rBwCN1IU9e9lV_73pcTGzp3q07w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi11MjC563iAhWCvp4KHX6SC5oQ6AEwCHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=roger%20richardson%20and%20eugene%20wigner&f=false Recollections]'', he was initially invited to LSU by the dean of LSU's Engineering College, Roger Richardson, who, like Wigner, had been personally involved in the Manhattan project during World War II. It seems clear as well, however, that part of the draw was an opportunity for Wigner to extend his research interactions with [https://www.lsu.edu/physics/alumni/callaway.php Joseph Callaway], who completed his doctoral dissertation research in 1956 under Wigner's dirction.

	=See Also=		=See Also=

Tohline: /* Los Alamos National Laboratory */

2019-05-21T18:15:18Z

Los Alamos National Laboratory

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	From 1980 - 1982 I held a Director-funded postdoctoral position in Group T-6 (astrophysics) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. My principal LANL mentor, Arthur N. Cox, was able to secure access for me to the Lab's substantial "outside-the-fence" computational resources. In addition, during this time at the Lab, I learned a great deal about numerical hydrodynamics from numerous, experienced Lab scientists. This allowed me to significantly extend my study of star-formation processes.		From 1980 - 1982 I held a Director-funded postdoctoral position in Group T-6 (astrophysics) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. My principal LANL mentor, Arthur N. Cox, was able to secure access for me to the Lab's substantial "outside-the-fence" computational resources. In addition, during this time at the Lab, I learned a great deal about numerical hydrodynamics from numerous, experienced Lab scientists. This allowed me to significantly extend my study of star-formation processes.

	About the time I was departing LANL in 1982, a new postdoc was hired into Group T-6, but this time the position was being funded via the Lab's ''J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow'' program. The new, young researcher was <font color="orange">Wojciech Zurek</font>. Over the next few years, I was aware that Zurek had collaborated with another T-6 postdoc, Willy Benz, to model the development of nonaxisymmetric structure in astrophysical accretion disks — see, for example, [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJ...308..123Z/abstract this article]. But it was not until I read Adam Becker's account of Zurek's work (see pp. 228 - 231) that I became aware of Zurek's prominence as a researcher in the area of Quantum Fundamentals.		About the time I was departing LANL in 1982, a new postdoc was hired into Group T-6, but this time the position was being funded via the Lab's ''J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow'' program. The new, young researcher was <font color="orange">Wojciech Zurek</font>. Over the next few years, I was aware that Zurek had collaborated with another T-6 postdoc, Willy Benz, to model the development of nonaxisymmetric structure in astrophysical accretion disks — see, for example, [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJ...308..123Z/abstract this article]. But it was not until I read Adam Becker's account of Zurek's work (see pp. 228 - 231) that I became aware of Zurek's worldwide prominence as a researcher in the area of Quantum Fundamentals.

	=See Also=		=See Also=

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Los Alamos National Laboratory

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	From 1980 - 1982 I held a Director-funded postdoctoral position in Group T-6 (astrophysics) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. My principal LANL mentor, Arthur N. Cox, was able to secure access for me to the Lab's substantial "outside-the-fence" computational resources. In addition, during this time at the Lab, I learned a great deal about numerical hydrodynamics from numerous, experienced Lab scientists. This allowed me to significantly extend my study of star-formation processes.		From 1980 - 1982 I held a Director-funded postdoctoral position in Group T-6 (astrophysics) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. My principal LANL mentor, Arthur N. Cox, was able to secure access for me to the Lab's substantial "outside-the-fence" computational resources. In addition, during this time at the Lab, I learned a great deal about numerical hydrodynamics from numerous, experienced Lab scientists. This allowed me to significantly extend my study of star-formation processes.

	About the time I was departing LANL in 1982, a new postdoc was hired into Group T-6, but this time the position was being funded via the Lab's ''J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow'' program. The new, young researcher was <font color="orange">Wojciech Zurek</font>. Over the next few years, I was aware that Zurek had collaborated with another T-6 postdoc, Willy Benz, to model the development of nonaxisymmetric structure in astrophysical accretion disks — see, for example, [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJ...308..123Z/abstract this article]. But it was not until I read Adam Becker's account of Zurek's work (see pp. 228 - 231) that he became a ~~very prominent~~ researcher in the area of Quantum Fundamentals.		About the time I was departing LANL in 1982, a new postdoc was hired into Group T-6, but this time the position was being funded via the Lab's ''J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow'' program. The new, young researcher was <font color="orange">Wojciech Zurek</font>. Over the next few years, I was aware that Zurek had collaborated with another T-6 postdoc, Willy Benz, to model the development of nonaxisymmetric structure in astrophysical accretion disks — see, for example, [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJ...308..123Z/abstract this article]. But it was not until I read Adam Becker's account of Zurek's work (see pp. 228 - 231) that I became aware of Zurek's prominence as a researcher in the area of Quantum Fundamentals.

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	From 1980 - 1982 I held a Director-funded postdoctoral position in Group T-6 (astrophysics) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. My principal LANL mentor, Arthur N. Cox, was able to secure access for me to the Lab's substantial "outside-the-fence" computational resources. In addition, during this time at the Lab, I learned a great deal about numerical hydrodynamics from numerous, experienced Lab scientists. This allowed me to significantly extend my study of star-formation processes.		From 1980 - 1982 I held a Director-funded postdoctoral position in Group T-6 (astrophysics) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. My principal LANL mentor, Arthur N. Cox, was able to secure access for me to the Lab's substantial "outside-the-fence" computational resources. In addition, during this time at the Lab, I learned a great deal about numerical hydrodynamics from numerous, experienced Lab scientists. This allowed me to significantly extend my study of star-formation processes.

	About the time I was departing LANL in 1982, a new postdoc was hired into Group T-6, but this time the position was being funded via the Lab's ''J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow'' program. The new, young researcher was <font color="orange">Wojciech Zurek</font>. Over the next few years, I was aware that Zurek had collaborated with another T-6 postdoc, Willy Benz, to model the ~~fragmentation~~ of accretion disks ~~in astrophysical settings~~. But it was not until I read Becker's account of Zurek's work (see pp. 228 - 231) that he became a very prominent researcher in the area of Quantum Fundamentals.		About the time I was departing LANL in 1982, a new postdoc was hired into Group T-6, but this time the position was being funded via the Lab's ''J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow'' program. The new, young researcher was <font color="orange">Wojciech Zurek</font>. Over the next few years, I was aware that Zurek had collaborated with another T-6 postdoc, Willy Benz, to model the development of nonaxisymmetric structure in astrophysical accretion disks — see, for example, [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJ...308..123Z/abstract this article]. But it was not until I read Adam Becker's account of Zurek's work (see pp. 228 - 231) that he became a very prominent researcher in the area of Quantum Fundamentals.

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