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Silas Beane

Academic

Silas R. Beane is a Professor of Physics at the University of Washington (2013-present), where he is a member of the Nuclear Theory Group and co-PI of the InQubator for Quantum Simulation. Prior to UW, he was at the University of New Hampshire (2003-2013) and the University of Bonn as Mercator Professor. Beane collaborates with colleagues like Peter J. Ehlers and Zohreh Davoudi, focusing on nuclear theory, lattice QCD, and entanglement in few-body systems. He is also a founding member of Nuclear Physics from Lattice QCD (NPLQCD).

physicist who proposed a testable lattice QCD prediction for the simulation hypothesis

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Mixed reception

Beane's lattice QCD prediction remains unconfirmed and is formally distinct from Bostrom's trilemma, making treating them as convergent evidence imprecise

Source: Research summary

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affiliated
Yale University

Mercator Professor of Physics

Visiting professor position.

2012–2013