This is some truly fine reporting, North Korean-style

[Locutus]

shiny media times my friends.

Justin Trudeau’s quantum leap

Before Trudeau surprised reporters by explaining the basics of quantum computing, he stunned physicists in Waterloo with his understanding of their field


Raymond Laflamme knows the drill when politicians visit the Perimeter Institute. A photo op here, a few handshakes there and a tour with “really basic, basic, basic facts” about the field of quantum mechanics.

But when the self-described “geek” Justin Trudeau showed up for a funding announcement on Friday, the co-founder and director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo wasn’t met with simple nods of the Prime Minister pretending to understand. Trudeau immediately started talking about things being waves and particles at the same time, like cats being dead and alive at the same time. It wasn’t just nonsense—Trudeau was referencing the famous thought experiment of the late legendary physicist Erwin Schrödinger.


more about the moronic pony retelling the Big Bang tv episode here:


Justin Trudeau’s quantum leap - Macleans.ca

https://twitter.com/acoyne/status/721341086233411584

 

[petros]

Twoodo - Kripke

 

[Locutus]

Twoodo - Kripke

coow stowy bwo

the mainstweam media has such a hawd-on fow this fwake.

heh: Canadian Content Fowums

The Dialectizer





back to the story:

Richard Lauder ‏@Kauwhaka

This story written not by a teen girl, but by a MAN. lol: Conference http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/04/justin-trudeau-quantum-computing … #puke

Man of Your Dreams Justin Trudeau Casually Drops Quantum Computing Lecture in Press Conference



http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/04/justin-trudeau-quantum-computing

 

[Locutus]

To put it another way, the Canadian media has actually reversed the realities of the story 180 degrees. What is being falsely presented as a story of a scrappy prime minister resisting a hostile press is actually a story of a slavishly subservient press who are actively shaping their reporting to suit the government’s needs.


It is a disgrace.


The North Koreanification of Canadian political reporting » J.J. McCullough » Archive

 

[tay]

Well neither Harper or Mulcair could have answered that.


I just hope he is smart enough to not sign the TPP......


www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRmv4uD2RQ4

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

I'm not sure I see the issue here.

 

[Locutus]

It's all about the smoothing of the reporting of the actual event. Playing the moron up as if he has half a brain.




So anyway, here is what actually happened.

On Friday, Prime Minister Trudeau visited the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics located in Waterloo, Ontario. After a tour, he staged a brief photo op with some scientists and gave a short speech about how his government believes in funding science yada yada. Then, at one point he said this:

“You don’t have to be a geek like me to appreciate how important this work is. Although I have to tell you, when we get to the media questions later I’m really hoping people ask me how quantum computing works because I was excited to deepen my knowledge of that this morning.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y34jkcX-Q3A&feature=youtu.be&t=13m46s

Eventually we did get to the media questions. The first one went like this:

REPORTER: Morning sir, I was going to ask you to explain quantum computing but.. [trails off as audience laughs] When do you expect Canada’s ISIL mission to begin again and are we not doing anything in the interim while we prepare?

PM TRUDEAU: ‘Kay, very simply, normal computers work by….