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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ZH-CN link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='text-justify-trim:punctuation'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear FIS colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>The following paragraph is extracted from </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“<span lang=EN-US>What Is a Particle?</span>”<span lang=EN-US> written by Natalie Wolchover, November 12, 2020. The thought of physical informatics it represents is the thinking on the origin of particles by a group of young physicists from Massachusetts Institute of technology in the post-Wheeler era. Many physicists believe that some of them are moving towards the Nobel Prize in physics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>FIS researchers should pay close attention to the physical informatics in this era as a bystander </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>—<span lang=EN-US> their research is jointly completed by a group of modern physicists and mathematicians </span>—<span lang=EN-US> otherwise, in a few years later, we couldn't deserve to be a bystander.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Maybe it is brewing a revolution in both of Fundamental Physical Science and Fundamental Information Science.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Xueshan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Peking University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>A Particle Is a </span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>‘<span lang=EN-US>Deformation of the Qubit Ocean</span>’<span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“<span lang=EN-US>The first of these research efforts goes by the slogan </span>“<span lang=EN-US>it-from-qubit,</span>”<span lang=EN-US> which expresses the hypothesis that everything in the universe </span>—<span lang=EN-US> all particles, as well as the space-time fabric those particles stud like blueberries in a muffin </span>—<span lang=EN-US> arises out of quantum bits of information, or qubits. Qubits are probabilistic combinations of two states, labeled 0 and 1. (Qubits can be stored in physical systems just as bits can be stored in transistors, but you can think of them more abstractly, as information itself.) When there are multiple qubits, their possible states can get tangled up, so that each one</span>’<span lang=EN-US>s state depends on the states of all the others. Through these contingencies, a small number of entangled qubits can encode a huge amount of information.</span>”<span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>From: <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-particle-20201112/">https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-particle-20201112/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>