DJ Strouse

A few weeks ago, I began a project with USC Professor Daniel Lidar to improve the efficiency of a nifty little procedure called “interaction-free measurement.” Here’s the picture:
A terrorist tells you he has planted a super-sensitive bomb in one hallway of a building, but you don’t know which one. The bomb will detonate [...]

…or at least from the frontiers of half-baked undergraduate projects.
Beginning this week, I’ll be posting research progress reports any day during which I work on a research project. For the vast majority of humanity, these will be about as exciting as reading the user manual for your printer. However, I have two main [...]

My Goodreads Rating: 2 of 5 stars
The bits on doing physics are interesting; the bits on picking up aging tigers in shady New York bars, not so much.
This book will likely appeal far more to science fanboys and groupies rather than scientists themselves. The goal of the book seems mostly to convince lay people [...]