Posted by kid_A on August 9, 2002, at 15:35:16
In reply to Re: quantum computing... » kid_A, posted by IsoM on August 9, 2002, at 14:17:42
> I knew it had been in the works, theory stage anyway, for a while but I honestly thought it impossible to actually make - existing in more than one state at a time? You know, like Schrödinger's cat - there but not there.Don't quote me on this but virtual particles -can- exist in two states at once, which results in black body radiation, or Hawking radiation from the particle falling into the black hole leaving its anti-particle... Also, as far as I remember, quantum computers opperate on the basis of Quarks, point like particles that have no sub particles and gluons, the strong nuclear force that binds the nucleus in an atom together... gluons are asosciated w/ a color (its sometimes called the color force) and these interactions of gluons between quarks cause the quarks to change states rapidly...
check out: http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/
and catch my glaring mistakes! (its been a while since i've been up on my physics...)
> The mathematician replies, "Well, according to quantum physics, empty space is never truly empty. Virtual particles come into existance and vanish all the time. You never know when the proper wave function will collapse and a girl might suddenly appear there."
joke = the funny, but actually its true... due to the heisenberg uncertainty principle, someone once said that it's not IMPOSSIBLE for a refridgerator to sudenly materialise in the middle of space... how possible... but you know how wacky physics is!
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