{"id":2101,"date":"2024-10-10T07:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T07:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.closelycoded.site\/?page_id=2101"},"modified":"2024-12-18T01:37:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T01:37:13","slug":"backstory-santa-claus-and-quantum-librarian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/events.cqt.sg\/shorts\/backstory-santa-claus-and-quantum-librarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstory: Santa Claus and the Quantum Librarian"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2101\" class=\"elementor elementor-2101\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5922dc1c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5922dc1c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6683d3c4 elementor-absolute elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6683d3c4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_position&quot;:&quot;absolute&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"92\" height=\"143\" src=\"https:\/\/events.cqt.sg\/shorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/pattern_top.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-591\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66666dcf elementor-absolute elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"66666dcf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_position&quot;:&quot;absolute&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"177\" src=\"https:\/\/events.cqt.sg\/shorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/pattern_bottom.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-592\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d31c074 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d31c074\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35255a5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"35255a5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Backstory: Santa Claus and the Quantum Librarian<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-698dafe elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"698dafe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p align=\"center\">A Q&amp;A with\u00a0<strong>S.A. McNaughton<\/strong>, Quantum Shorts finalist<\/p><p align=\"center\">Read the story:\u00a0<a href=\"\/entry\/santa-claus-and-quantum-librarian\">Santa Claus and the Quantum Librarian<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2bc8bc4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2bc8bc4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Can you give a short introduction of yourself?<\/strong><\/p><p>I\u2019m a mom and a university graduate advisor, living in Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA. I used to write fiction as a child, but I had fallen out of the habit for several decades until picking it back up last year.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>How did you come up with the idea for your story?<\/strong><\/p><p>The Quantum Shorts website provided a lot of helpful resources, from which I learned about some of the most basic ideas of quantum physics. The \u201cQuantum Theory: A to Z\u201d section of the site was particularly useful for giving me an overview of some concepts to explore and story ideas to build. I wrote about 200 words of a romance between a physicist and a librarian before I was hit with writer\u2019s block. Then the Santa Claus idea came to me, and that story took off.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>What was your quantum inspiration?<\/strong><\/p><p>Arthur C. Clarke said that \u201cAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.\u201d As I was writing this story at Christmastime, the idea of Santa\u2019s magic was at the front of my mind. Once I had the idea of Santa Claus\u2019s quantum powers, I found an article called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48550\/arXiv.2312.01891\">A Christmas Story about Quantum Teleportation<\/a>\u00a0(by Barry W. Fitzgerald, Patrick Emonts, and Jordi Tura) that was very helpful for developing the idea and understanding some of the concepts behind it. I read several other blog posts about \u201cQuantum Santa\u201d to get ideas for how my characters would work and interact with each other.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>What was your writing process like?<\/strong><\/p><p>I was fortunate to have a weeklong break over the Christmas and New Year holidays, which both inspired the content of my story and gave me the time to work on it.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>What is your favourite science-inspired book?<\/strong><\/p><p><em>A Wind in the Door<\/em>\u00a0by Madeleine L\u2019Engle.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>What does being a Quantum Shorts finalist mean to you?<\/strong><\/p><p>I am so surprised and so pleased to know that my story resonated with the judges. I\u2019ve never won anything for my writing, so this means a lot to me. I was pleased with this story, and I\u2019m honoured to know that others were too.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Is there anything else you would like to tell us about you or your story?<\/strong><\/p><p>I was a humanities student in college, but I work with graduate students in Science and Engineering now. This competition made me realise I\u2019ve absorbed some of what my colleagues and students are talking about! It was rewarding to write this story if only to connect a bit with the concepts they\u2019re studying and innovating in.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backstory: Santa Claus and the Quantum Librarian A Q&amp;A with\u00a0S.A. McNaughton, Quantum Shorts finalist Read the story:\u00a0Santa Claus and the Quantum Librarian Can you give a short introduction of yourself? 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