New 'pooters.

[Ike Bana]

The whole thing about "quantum" causes me to drift back to Schroedinger's cat...nothing exists unless you can see it. I think.

So a quantum computer doesn't exist unless you can see it. That's good.

Next?

[Dondilion]

Quantum computing explained:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...icle-mechanics

[nailer]

Guardian article excerpt:

Are there commercial quantum computers?

There is a commercial computer out there but it's very expensive ($10m), it has very limited computing power and it hasn't yet been verified by anybody externally [as to] what it's actually doing.

(Bolding by Bob)

[piece-itpete]

According to what I've learned there is no way to verify what it does. If you look while it's working it screws it up (observation changes its' behavior) and if you try to find out afterwards there's no way to tell.

Pete

[piece-itpete]

This is excellent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkgLzo6qhQg

Pete

[bobabode]

Tasty waves brudda!

[piece-itpete]

We've had d-rays for a while, now we've got d-waves too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdHDHEuOUE

I wonder what new info on us Google is working out Probably knows us better than we know ourselves

Pete

[Ike Bana]

My cat crawled into a box. I put the top on it and the cat wasn't there anymore.

[donquixote99]

I've been watching Pete's excellent video. I'm stopped at the 5:45 point,

All objects are waves?
The marbles must pass through both holes at once?

I don't buy this stuff. I think the correspondence of patterns does not mean that parrticles (balls) are waves. It just means the patterns match. This stuff is voodoo, literally, saying there are links between things that look alike.

Here's a test. Have two walls, one with one hole in it, one with two. Send the marbles through the one-hole wall, and note the pattern. Then send marbles through only one hole of the two-hole wall. If the marbles are 'passing through both holes at once,' the pattern in the second case should differ from the pattern in the first case.

[Ike Bana]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19zRwxtJSOo