{"id":87019,"date":"2025-10-27T07:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=87019"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:12:38","slug":"the-quantum-essays-you-can-try-it-if-you-like-but-youd-far-better-notter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/27\/the-quantum-essays-you-can-try-it-if-you-like-but-youd-far-better-notter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quantum Essays: You can try it if you like, but you&#8217;d far better notter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yesterday was Sunday, and so Jacqueline and I did, as seems to be our habit, discuss quantum-related issues, partly with the need to post chapter 4 of the Quantum Biology series in mind. However, for all sorts of good reasons, we are still refining that, even though almost all the key decisions have now been made. So we agreed to offer this instead of a Quantum Essay.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VnbiVw_1FNs?si=Q5Psyq9wPQuvYSHh\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Other essays in this series:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/category\/quantum-economics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Quantum Economics series<\/a>\u00a0(this link opens a tab with them all in it)<\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/09\/18\/the-quantum-essays-observing-and-engaging\/\">The Quantum Essays: Observing and Engaging<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/09\/19\/the-quantum-essays-quantum-mmt-the-wave-function-of-sovereign-spending\/\">The Quantum Essays: Quantum MMT: The wave function of sovereign spending<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/09\/20\/the-quantum-essays-is-equilibrium-only-possible-in-death\/\">The Quantum Essays: Is equilibrium only possible in death?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/09\/22\/the-quantum-essays-economics-the-big-bang-and-rachel-reeves\/\">The Quantum essays: Economics, the Big Bang and Rachel Reeves<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/09\/25\/the-quantum-essays-quantum-economics-discounting-and-the-cost-of-inaction\/\">The Quantum Essays: Quantum economics, discounting, and the cost of inaction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/05\/the-quantum-essays-schrodinger-entropy-equilibrium-and-the-lessons-for-society\/\">The Quantum Essays: Schr\u00f6dinger, entropy, equilibrium, and the lessons for society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/06\/the-quantum-essays-the-meaning-of-life-negentropy-and-the-politics-of-staying-alive\/\">The Quantum Essays: The meaning of life, negentropy, and the politics of staying alive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/08\/the-quantum-essays-democracy-as-negentropy-why-fascism-is-the-politics-of-death\/\">The<\/a><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/08\/the-quantum-essays-democracy-as-negentropy-why-fascism-is-the-politics-of-death\/\">\u00a0Quantum Essays: Democracy as negentropy: why fascism is the politics of death<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/10\/the-quantum-essays-where-are-the-checks-on-entropy-in-the-us-system-now\/\">The Quantum Essays: Where are the checks on entropy in the US system now?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/11\/the-quantum-essays-where-are-the-checks-on-entropy-in-the-uk-system-now\/\">The Quantum Essays: Where are the checks on entropy in the UK system now?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/12\/the-quantum-essays-the-quantum-difference-between-work-and-speculation\/\">The Quantum Essays: The quantum difference between work and speculation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/18\/quantumish-essay-what-if-darwin-was-wrong-the-case-for-the-survival-of-the-wisest\/\">Quantum(ish) Essay: What if Darwin was wrong? 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