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erronis

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2. There are tons of articles about this "quantum" stuff but it does tend to be very academic

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Thu Apr 11, 2024, 11:20 AM

Apr 11

and not easily absorbed by us mere mortals who are used to the more Newtonian world.

The main driver of this technology, if I understand it at all, is that information can be transmitted via entangled particles so that a change at one end (say your desktop) of the pipeline causes a near-instant change at the other (say the computing server).

I haven't read this but it popped up at the top of my search results:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement

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New advances promise secure quantum computing at home -- phys.org [View all] erronis Apr 11 OP

The first thing quantum computing needs to do is define itself without use of the word quantum bucolic_frolic Apr 11 #1

There are tons of articles about this "quantum" stuff but it does tend to be very academic erronis Apr 11 #2

Entanglement matters but it's not exactly that information is transmitted instantaneously caraher Apr 13 #3

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