Aram Harrow and Gil Kalai debate “Conjecture 1″ William Wootters and Wojciech Zurek were office-mates in 1979 as graduate students at U.T. Austin in John Wheeler’s group. A paper by Nick Herbert of the Fundamental Fysiks Group crossed their desks with an idea toward harnessing quantum mechanics for faster-than-light communication. Fascinated though skeptical, they realized [...]