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FLORIDA MAN KILLED BY HELICOPTER BLADE IN FREAK ACCIDENT AT AIRPORT

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FLORIDA MAN KILLED BY HELICOPTER BLADE IN FREAK ACCIDENT AT AIRPORT

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A. 62-year-old Salvatore Disi
B. Died in Florida
C. He was struck by a helicopter blade in the head
D. Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport
E. At around 3:35 p.m. on Thursday
F. The victim was trying to jump start the helicopter when the aircraft “suddenly jerked up and then came down, striking him on the head.
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A man has died in Florida, having been struck by a helicopter blade. Hernando County Sheriff's deputies were called to Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport, western Florida, at around 3:35 p.m. on Thursday, following reports that a helicopter struck a man in the head, police said in a statement.

The sheriff's office identified the victim as 62-year-old Salvatore Disi. He died instantly, police said.
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When officers arrived at the scene, they found a body beside a hanger on Flight Path Drive, in the city of Brooksville, Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis said according to ABC Action News. Nienhuis said at a news conference that there was no sign of foul play.

In a call to police, an individual on the scene explained he and the victim were trying to jump start a helicopter using a power cart prior to the accident. The aircraft "suddenly jerked up and then came down," and the rotor blades hit the man on the head.

Denise M. Moloney, a spokesperson for Hernando County Sheriff, told TribLive that fire and rescue were initially called to attend the incident "but we canceled them because it was a very obvious death."

Nienhuis said, according to NBC-affiliate WFLA, "Obviously a death that is a little bit unusual and we want to make sure we have all the answers. It's tragic that those individuals are not going to be able to give their loved one a hug again."

Following a request from the airport, the Medical Examiner's Office in Leesburg collected the body from the scene. Officials have launched an investigation into the incident.

The helicopter belonged to Dr. Alfred Bonati, an orthopedic surgeon at the Bonati Spine Institute in Hudson, Florida. The surgeon was at the scene when the accident unfolded, WFLA reported.

According to U.S. News and World Report, Bonati has been a medical practitioner for two decades since graduating from Universidad de Cadiz Faculty of Medicine.

Citing Federal Aviation Administration records, the Tampa Bay Times reported the aircraft is believed to be a 1993 Bell 230 twin-engine light helicopter.

Nienhuis told ABC Action News that the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have been contacted.

The incident occurred away from the facility's runways and did not impact air traffic, Nienhuis said according to the Tampa Bay Times.

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A man has died in Florida, having been struck by a helicopter blade. Hernando County Sheriff's deputies were called to Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport, western Florida, at around 3:35 p.m. on Thursday, following reports that a helicopter struck a man in the head, police said in a statement.

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Who:Dirk Burkett
What: Military Veteran Dirk Burkett bought his dream vehicle a 1990 Desert-Storm era Humvee he later found out that it was stolen.
When: January 9 2019
Where: Holton, Michigan
Why: Dirk wanted to buy a Humvee but did not think he would get it in an illegal manner.
How: After a while of checking the newly bought Humvee he saw the serial number and this tipped him off that the vehicle he had bought was stolen he called Michigan state police and reported it fortunately the seller was caught and he confessed that he bought the Humvee off of somebody else and knew it had been through other buyers, Dirk was refunded and was not arrested he was stated as the victim in the case. As for the Humvee its was impounded and the owner was called to inform him about the Humvee

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HOLTON, Mich. -- A military veteran's dream of owning a 1990 Desert Storm-era military Humvee turned into a pricey nightmare. He learned he purchased a stolen vehicle , and now he's out about $11,000.

Dirk Burkett said the transaction took place via Facebook Marketplace in late September. The Holton resident purchased the Humvee from a private seller in Holland and said everything seemed to check out. That is, until he went through the process of getting the title for the vehicle.

"It was basically like my heart sunk in my chest, because that's a substantial amount of money," Burkett recalled.

Burkett explained the transaction: "We sent him a deposit for $500, and then I got $10,000 in cash, and then I went down and completed the purchase of the truck."

He got the truck home and started looking into the title when he learned the truck had been stolen. Burkett said the Humvee's serial numbers revealed the theft. So he called the Michigan State Police.

"They towed the truck [and] impounded it because it was, in fact, stolen," Burkett said.

"Then I tried to contact the gentleman that I purchased it from and see about getting my money refunded," he explained. "At which point, he told me he has no liability. I need to litigate with the gentleman that stole the truck."

State Police traced the Humvee back to an owner in Kentwood. By all accounts, the vehicle has traded hands at least twice before Burkett bought it.

"The detective said they had a clear picture and the video of the gentleman who stole it," Burkett recalled. "It took just a day or two after I reported it they had caught the guy."

Burkett believes the private seller had no clue about the truck's origins. Regardless, he wants that seller to give him his money back.

"In my opinion, no one should be profiting off a stolen vehicle," he said. "I feel that everybody should just go down the line and return the money so that nobody's out anything."

FOX 17 called and spoke with the private seller, who said he feels bad for Burkett but said every previous buyer got taken for a ride. The private seller said he didn't make a profit off the sell to Burkett.

Burkett said authorities told him they'd try to list him as a victim in the case, but he said he's not holding his breath for restitution.

FOX 17 has reached out to Kentwood police for more information on the case and an arrest but have not heard back.

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Veteran out $11,000 after purchasing stolen Humvee

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HOLTON, Mich. -- A military veteran's dream of owning a 1990 Desert Storm-era military Humvee turned into a pricey nightmare. He learned he purchased a stolen vehicle , and now he's out about $11,000. Dirk Burkett said the transaction took place via Facebook Marketplace in late September.

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A bus driver rescued a barefoot baby wandering in the freezing cold

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A bus driver rescued a barefoot baby wandering in the freezing cold

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WHO? A Milwaukee bus driver
WHAT? A bus driver saw a baby stranded out in the street so he rescued him.
WHEN? January 10, 2018
WHERE? In Milwaukee
WHY? "I absolutely love kids. I used to be a teacher and I have children of my own, so I'm so happy I was able to help this sweet, innocent baby," said the bus driver.
HOW? A passenger went out of the bus to pick up the cold little baby and kept the baby warm by having a woman that was on the bus to give her coat to the baby to use it for warmth.

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(CNN) - A Milwaukee bus driver went above the call of duty when she stopped to save an unlikely would-be passenger: a baby.

Irena Ivic was driving on a freeway overpass when she spotted a barefoot baby, Milwaukee County Transit System spokesman Matt Sliker said. The baby, wearing a red onesie and a diaper, was quickly walking to an intersection.

"I'm just grateful I was in the right place at the right time," Ivic said at a commendation ceremony held in her honor on Thursday.

Ivic stopped the bus and ran out to scoop up the baby, as seen in a video released by the transit system. She carried the baby to the bus, where passengers gathered in disbelief.

"Oh my God. Oh my God. I am shaking," Ivic said in the video as she sat down in the driver's seat with the baby.

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(CNN) - A Milwaukee bus driver went above the call of duty when she stopped to save an unlikely would-be passenger: a baby. Irena Ivic was driving on a freeway overpass when she spotted a barefoot baby, Milwaukee County Transit System spokesman Matt Sliker said.

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Police seek staff DNA over vegetative woman's baby

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A. An unnamed woman
B. Gave birth to a baby
C. While she was in coma
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E. December 29
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Police in Arizona are seeking DNA samples from male staff at a nursing home where a patient in a vegetative state gave birth.

The incident occurred at a clinic run by Hacienda HealthCare, near Phoenix.

The centre said a warrant was served by police on Tuesday, as authorities try to find out how the woman became pregnant.

She has reportedly been a patient at the facility for at least a decade following a near-drowning incident.

Earlier this week, the chief executive of the corporation in charge of the home resigned over the case.

In a news conference on Wednesday, Phoenix police spokesman Sgt Tommy Thompson said it was not known whether anyone had declined to give a DNA sample.

On its website, Hacienda HealthCare says it provides care for "medically fragile and chronically ill infants, children, teens, and young adults as well as those with intellectual and developmental disabilities".

The female patient, who has not been identified, reportedly gave birth to a boy on 29 December.

Police said the infant was not breathing when they were called into the facility, though both mother and child are now recovering in a local hospital.

'Traumatised'

Lawyer John Micheaels, representing the woman's family, described her as being in a "completely vulnerable state".

"The family obviously is outraged, traumatised and in shock by the abuse and neglect of their daughter at Hacienda HealthCare," the attorney told NBC's 12News.

The relatives, who say they are not ready to come forward, asked for it to be conveyed publicly that the child has been "born into a loving family and will be well cared for".

The woman is a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, according to a statement released by tribal leaders on Tuesday.

"I am deeply shocked and horrified at the treatment of one of our members," Tribe Chairman Terry Rambler said.

"When you have a loved one committed to palliative care, when they are most vulnerable and dependent upon others, you trust their caretakers. Sadly, one of her caretakers was not to be trusted and took advantage of her."

Local media reports say staff at the care home were unaware the patient was pregnant until she gave birth.

Hacienda has said it will "do everything in [its] power to bring this police investigation to a quick conclusion".

"We will continue to co-operate with Phoenix police and all other investigative agencies to uncover the facts in this deeply disturbing, but unprecedented situation," it said in a statement.

The company also said it had sought legal advice over the possibility of mandatory DNA testing for staff, but was advised it would violate federal law.

Arizona Department of Health Services said additional safety measures have been implemented at the home since the case came to light.

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What Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos' divorce could mean for Amazon

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What Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos' divorce could mean for Amazon

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3a. Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos’
3b. Got a divorce after 25 years
3c. Announced their divorce after a period of loving exploration and trial seperation
3d. Washington;where they live
3e. Announced divorce Wednesday January 9 2019/Article written following day Thursday
3f. The divorce would make his wife one of the biggest shareholders of Amazon which she could use to make changes to the company in opposition to her ex husband

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Shortly after they were married, MacKenzie Bezos drove her husband, Jeff, across the country from New York to Seattle while he typed out a business plan for what would become Amazon.

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Police investigating after school bus allegedly shot by pellet gun in NW Miami-Dade

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Police investigating after school bus allegedly shot by pellet gun in NW Miami-Dade

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NAME: Angelique Miller-Lawson
QUALITY OF NEWS: Proximity
WHO: A school bus carrying special needs students
WHAT: A window from the school bus got broken/shattered
WHEN: On Thursday, January 10th, of 2019 at around 3pm (after school) with the bus driver driving the students to their homes
WHERE: This happened in the area around NW 19th Ave & 72nd Street In NW Miami-Dade
WHY: It is unknown yet as to who exactly did this
HOW: Police and Investigators are saying that it may have been caused by a Pellet Gun

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NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - Miami-Dade Police officers are investigating the possibility that a school bus was shot by a pellet gun.

At around 3 p.m. Thursday, officers arrived to a school bus that had a broken window in the area of Northwest 19th Avenue and 72nd Street.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney's office is also in the area investigating.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue also arrived on the scene.

Officials said they have yet to confirm if the damage was caused by a pellet gun.

One student was worried that glass potentially struck a part of his face. However, the student was checked out on the scene and turned out to be OK.

Police said there were no other injuries.

Seven kids remain on this parked bus after reports of a possible pellet gun fired, which caused fire rescue to come to NW 72nd St and 19th Ave. Nobody was transported and a police scene around the bus is active, as kids from Central High School wait. @wsvn #7News pic.twitter.com/KK0VnA6tie

- Sheldon Fox-7 News (@fox_sheldon) January 10, 2019

The school bus was transporting students with special needs, including one student in a wheelchair, from Miami Central High School.

"He just told me that 'mama, we just know that the bus got shot up, but don't panic, I'm OK,'" said Tangie Sands, a parent of one of the students on the bus. "In this area you go to sleep with gun violence, you wake up to gun violence. The more you say put the guns down, the more they pick them up, so what do you do?"

Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho responded to the alleged attack on Twitter stating, "I am deeply disturbed by this cowardly and irresponsible attack, which could have had catastrophic consequences. We at Miami-Dade County Public Schools will work with authorities to fully investigate this despicable act."

Carvalho eventually showed up at the scene and spoke to 7News.

"This is an irresponsible, despicable act, and it shall be investigated and prosecuted to the full extent of the law," he said.

Parents also arrived to pick their children up but were told the students must remain on the bus for the time being.

Some parents ended up leaving because they could not provide ID.

Police officials are now investigating.

Meanwhile, the bus has left the area to drop the seven students off at their destinations.

If you have any information on this incident, call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a $1,000 reward.
Copyright 2018 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - Miami-Dade Police officers are investigating the possibility that a school bus was shot by a pellet gun. At around 3 p.m. Thursday, officers arrived to a school bus that had a broken window in the area of Northwest 19th Avenue and 72nd Street.

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Jakiw Palij: 🤬 guard deported by US dies in Germany

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Jakiw Palij: 🤬 guard deported by US dies in Germany

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A former Nazi collaborator who served as a labour-camp guard in World War Two has died in Germany aged 95, local media report.

Jakiw Palij, who was thought to be the last Nazi collaborator living in the US, was deported to Germany last year after a lengthy legal battle.

Palij had been stateless since 2003 when a federal judge revoked his US citizenship over his Nazi links.

Reports say he died in a home for the elderly in the town of Ahlen.

Before his deportation, the former guard lived in the Queens borough of New York City.

His presence there, in a particularly diverse borough, became a point of contention when his past emerged.

His home was often picketed by protestors demanding his expulsion.

Palij's deportation case was resolved last year when Germany agreed to take him in - despite him not possessing German citizenship.

In August, the 95-year-old was taken from his home in a wheelchair and flown to Düsseldorf.

At the time Richard Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany, praised President Trump's leadership in helping to resolve the protracted legal dispute.

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What was he accused of?

Palij is believed to have been born in 1923, in an area of Poland that is now in Ukraine.

US authorities alleged he was trained in 1941 by Nazis to work at Trawniki - a camp in German-occupied Poland.

The camp initially served as a holding centre for refugees and Soviet prisoners of war, but was eventually transformed by the SS into a training facility.

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The thousands who trained there became known as Trawniki men - tasked with rounding up Jewish civilians from Poland and staffing killing centres at Sobibor, Treblinka and Belzec.

It also housed a forced labour camp where thousands of Jews died - including 6,000 who were killed in a single day in 1943.

US authorities accused Palij of being an armed guard at Trawniki, and said he played an "indispensible role" in ensuring Jews were killed.
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Palij himself denied collaborating with the Nazis - telling the New York Times in 2003 he worked for them in fear for his own family's safety. He also denied having ever set foot in a camp himself.

A US court ruled he had assisted in the persecution of prisoners, but did not find him personally responsible for deaths.

Citizenship battles

The former guard entered the US through Boston in 1949, allegedly under a law meant to help refugees fleeing post-war Europe, the Associated Press report.

He was eventually granted US citizenship in 1957, and held it until his past came to light decades later.

In 2004 he was ordered to leave the country - but ambiguity over his citizenship delayed deportation.

For 14 years US authorities could not persuade Germany, Ukraine or Poland to take him in.

But last year, it was announced the German position had changed.

He was given a residency permit using a technicality decree intended for humanitarian or political purposes, German media report.

However, after Palij's arrival, German officials cast doubt he would ever face prosecution over alleged war crimes - citing lack of evidence.

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How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code

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How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code

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Who: Ahmed Almheiri, Xi Dong and Daniel Harlow
What: These three scientists, after studying the way in which the fabric of space and time bends in a toy universe called an "Anti de sitter space", realized that this scientific action closely resembles the way in which quantum error correction operates.
How: In the Anti de sitter space, the bendy fabric of space-time is a projection that emerges from entangled quantum particles living on its outer boundary. This fabric resembles the calculated code of quantum error correction codes, suggesting that the two are entwined.
When: 2014
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Why: This is a major advancement to the understanding of the physics within our universe and possibly to the quantum mechanics of super computers.

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In 1994, a mathematician at AT&T Research named Peter Shor brought instant fame to "quantum computers" when he discovered that these hypothetical devices could quickly factor large numbers - and thus break much of modern cryptography. But a fundamental problem stood in the way of actually building quantum computers: the innate frailty of their physical components.

Unlike binary bits of information in ordinary computers, "qubits" consist of quantum particles that have some probability of being in each of two states, designated |0⟩ and |1⟩, at the same time. When qubits interact, their possible states become interdependent, each one's chances of |0⟩ and |1⟩ hinging on those of the other. The contingent possibilities proliferate as the qubits become more and more "entangled" with each operation. Sustaining and manipulating this exponentially growing number of simultaneous possibilities are what makes quantum computers so theoretically powerful.

But qubits are maddeningly error-prone. The feeblest magnetic field or stray microwave pulse causes them to undergo "bit-flips" that switch their chances of being |0 ⟩ and |1⟩ relative to the other qubits, or "phase-flips" that invert the mathematical relationship between their two states. For quantum computers to work, scientists must find schemes for protecting information even when individual qubits get corrupted. What's more, these schemes must detect and correct errors without directly measuring the qubits, since measurements collapse qubits' coexisting possibilities into definite realities: plain old 0s or 1s that can't sustain quantum computations.

In 1995, Shor followed his factoring algorithm with another stunner: proof that "quantum error-correcting codes" exist. The computer scientists Dorit Aharonov and Michael Ben-Or (and other researchers working independently) proved a year later that these codes could theoretically push error rates close to zero. "This was the central discovery in the '90s that convinced people that scalable quantum computing should be possible at all," said Scott Aaronson, a leading quantum computer scientist at the University of Texas - "that it is merely a staggering problem of engineering."

Now, even as small quantum computers are materializing in labs around the world, useful ones that will outclass ordinary computers remain years or decades away. Far more efficient quantum error-correcting codes are needed to cope with the daunting error rates of real qubits. The effort to design better codes is "one of the major thrusts of the field," Aaronson said, along with improving the hardware.

But in the dogged pursuit of these codes over the past quarter-century, a funny thing happened in 2014, when physicists found evidence of a deep connection between quantum error correction and the nature of space, time and gravity. In Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, gravity is defined as the fabric of space and time - or "space-time" - bending around massive objects. (A ball tossed into the air travels along a straight line through space-time, which itself bends back toward Earth.) But powerful as Einstein's theory is, physicists believe gravity must have a deeper, quantum origin from which the semblance of a space-time fabric somehow emerges.

That year - 2014 - three young quantum gravity researchers came to an astonishing realization. They were working in physicists' theoretical playground of choice: a toy universe called "anti-de Sitter space" that works like a hologram. The bendy fabric of space-time in the interior of the universe is a projection that emerges from entangled quantum particles living on its outer boundary. Ahmed Almheiri, Xi Dong and Daniel Harlow did calculations suggesting that this holographic "emergence" of space-time works just like a quantum error-correcting code. They conjectured in the Journal of High Energy Physics that space-time itself is a code - in anti-de Sitter (AdS) universes, at least. The paper has triggered a wave of activity in the quantum gravity community, and new quantum error-correcting codes have been discovered that capture more properties of space-time.

John Preskill, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, says quantum error correction explains how space-time achieves its "intrinsic robustness," despite being woven out of fragile quantum stuff. "We're not walking on eggshells to make sure we don't make the geometry fall apart," Preskill said. "I think this connection with quantum error correction is the deepest explanation we have for why that's the case."

The language of quantum error correction is also starting to enable researchers to probe the mysteries of black holes: spherical regions in which space-time curves so steeply inward toward the center that not even light can escape. "Everything traces back to black holes," said Almheiri, who is now at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. These paradox-ridden places are where gravity reaches its zenith and Einstein's general relativity theory fails. "There are some indications that if you understand which code space-time implements," he said, "it might help us in understanding the black hole interior."

As a bonus, researchers hope holographic space-time might also point the way to scalable quantum computing, fulfilling the long-ago vision of Shor and others. "Space-time is a lot smarter than us," Almheiri said. "The kind of quantum error-correcting code which is implemented in these constructions is a very efficient code."

So, how do quantum error-correcting codes work? The trick to protecting information in jittery qubits is to store it not in individual qubits, but in patterns of entanglement among many.

As a simple example, consider the three-qubit code: It uses three "physical" qubits to protect a single "logical" qubit of information against bit-flips. (The code isn't really useful for quantum error correction because it can't protect against phase-flips, but it's nonetheless instructive.) The |0⟩ state of the logical qubit corresponds to all three physical qubits being in their |0⟩ states, and the |1⟩ state corresponds to all three being |1⟩'s. The system is in a "superposition" of these states, designated |000⟩ + |111⟩. But say one of the qubits bit-flips. How do we detect and correct the error without directly measuring any of the qubits?

The qubits can be fed through two gates in a quantum circuit. One gate checks the "parity" of the first and second physical qubit - whether they're the same or different - and the other gate checks the parity of the first and third. When there's no error (meaning the qubits are in the state |000⟩ + |111⟩), the parity-measuring gates determine that both the first and second and the first and third qubits are always the same. However, if the first qubit accidentally bit-flips, producing the state |100⟩ + |011⟩, the gates detect a difference in both of the pairs. For a bit-flip of the second qubit, yielding |010⟩ + |101⟩, the parity-measuring gates detect that the first and second qubits are different and first and third are the same, and if the third qubit flips, the gates indicate: same, different. These unique outcomes reveal which corrective surgery, if any, needs to be performed - an operation that flips back the first, second or third physical qubit without collapsing the logical qubit. "Quantum error correction, to me, it's like magic," Almheiri said.

The best error-correcting codes can typically recover all of the encoded information from slightly more than half of your physical qubits, even if the rest are corrupted. This fact is what hinted to Almheiri, Dong and Harlow in 2014 that quantum error correction might be related to the way anti-de Sitter space-time arises from quantum entanglement.

It's important to note that AdS space is different from the space-time geometry of our "de Sitter" universe. Our universe is infused with positive vacuum energy that causes it to expand without bound, while anti-de Sitter space has negative vacuum energy, which gives it the hyperbolic geometry of one of M.C. Escher's Circle Limit designs. Escher's tessellated creatures become smaller and smaller moving outward from the circle's center, eventually vanishing at the perimeter; similarly, the spatial dimension radiating away from the center of AdS space gradually shrinks and eventually disappears, establishing the universe's outer boundary. AdS space gained popularity among quantum gravity theorists in 1997 after the renowned physicist Juan Maldacena discovered that the bendy space-time fabric in its interior is "holographically dual" to a quantum theory of particles living on the lower-dimensional, gravity-free boundary.

In exploring how the duality works, as hundreds of physicists have in the past two decades, Almheiri and colleagues noticed that any point in the interior of AdS space could be constructed from slightly more than half of the boundary - just as in an optimal quantum error-correcting code.

In their paper conjecturing that holographic space-time and quantum error correction are one and the same, they described how even a simple code could be understood as a 2D hologram. It consists of three "qutrits" - particles that exist in any of three states - sitting at equidistant points around a circle. The entangled trio of qutrits encode one logical qutrit, corresponding to a single space-time point in the circle's center. The code protects the point against the erasure of any of the three qutrits.

Of course, one point is not much of a universe. In 2015, Harlow, Preskill, Fernando Pastawski and Beni Yoshida found another holographic code, nicknamed the HaPPY code, that captures more properties of AdS space. The code tiles space in five-sided building blocks - "little Tinkertoys," said Patrick Hayden of Stanford University, a leader in the research area. Each Tinkertoy represents a single space-time point. "These tiles would be playing the role of the fish in an Escher tiling," Hayden said.

In the HaPPY code and other holographic error-correcting schemes that have been discovered, everything inside a region of the interior space-time called the "entanglement wedge" can be reconstructed from qubits on an adjacent region of the boundary. Overlapping regions on the boundary will have overlapping entanglement wedges, Hayden said, just as a logical qubit in a quantum computer is reproducible from many different subsets of physical qubits. "That's where the error-correcting property comes in."

"Quantum error correction gives us a more general way of thinking about geometry in this code language," said Preskill, the Caltech physicist. The same language, he said, "ought to be applicable, in my opinion, to more general situations" - in particular, to a de Sitter universe like ours. But de Sitter space, lacking a spatial boundary, has so far proven much harder to understand as a hologram.

For now, researchers like Almheiri, Harlow and Hayden are sticking with AdS space, which shares many key properties with a de Sitter world but is simpler to study. Both space-time geometries abide by Einstein's theory; they simply curve in different directions. Perhaps most importantly, both kinds of universes contain black holes. "The most fundamental property of gravity is that there are black holes," said Harlow, who is now an assistant professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "That's what makes gravity different from all the other forces. That's why quantum gravity is hard."

The language of quantum error correction has provided a new way of describing black holes. The presence of a black hole is defined by "the breakdown of correctability," Hayden said: "When there are so many errors that you can no longer keep track of what's going on in the bulk [space-time] anymore, you get a black hole. It's like a sink for your ignorance."

Ignorance invariably abounds when it comes to black hole interiors. Stephen Hawking's 1974 epiphany that black holes radiate heat, and thus eventually evaporate away, triggered the infamous "black hole information paradox," which asks what happens to all the information that black holes swallow. Physicists need a quantum theory of gravity to understand how things that fall in black holes also get out. The issue may relate to cosmology and the birth of the universe, since expansion out of a Big Bang singularity is much like gravitational collapse into a black hole in reverse.

AdS space simplifies the information question. Since the boundary of an AdS universe is holographically dual to everything in it - black holes and all - the information that falls into a black hole is guaranteed never to be lost; it's always holographically encoded on the universe's boundary. Calculations suggest that to reconstruct information about a black hole's interior from qubits on the boundary, you need access to entangled qubits throughout roughly three-quarters of the boundary. "Slightly more than half is not sufficient anymore," Almheiri said. He added that the need for three-quarters seems to say something important about quantum gravity, but why that fraction comes up "is still an open question."

In Almheiri's first claim to fame in 2012, the tall, thin Emirati physicist and three collaborators deepened the information paradox. Their reasoning suggested that information might be prevented from ever falling into a black hole in the first place, by a "firewall" at the black hole's event horizon.

Like most physicists, Almheiri doesn't really believe black hole firewalls exist, but finding the way around them has proved difficult. Now, he thinks quantum error correction is what stops firewalls from forming, by protecting information even as it crosses black hole horizons. In his latest, solo work, which appeared in October, he reported that quantum error correction is "essential for maintaining the smoothness of space-time at the horizon" of a two-mouthed black hole, called a wormhole. He speculates that quantum error correction, as well as preventing firewalls, is also how qubits escape a black hole after falling in, through strands of entanglement between the inside and outside that are themselves like miniature wormholes. This would resolve Hawking's paradox.

This year, the Department of Defense is funding research into holographic space-time, at least partly in case advances there might spin off more efficient error-correcting codes for quantum computers.

On the physics side, it remains to be seen whether de Sitter universes like ours can be described holographically, in terms of qubits and codes. "The whole connection is known for a world that is manifestly not our world," Aaronson said. In a paper last summer, Dong, who is now at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his co-authors Eva Silverstein and Gonzalo Torroba took a step in the de Sitter direction, with an attempt at a primitive holographic description. Researchers are still studying that particular proposal, but Preskill thinks the language of quantum error correction will ultimately carry over to actual space-time.

"It's really entanglement which is holding the space together," he said. "If you want to weave space-time together out of little pieces, you have to entangle them in the right way. And the right way is to build a quantum error-correcting code."

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