Author: Gunnar Andersson
Date: 02:13:43 06/19/00
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On June 17, 2000 at 22:19:11, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >But first i want to see a CLEAR picture of what a quantum is. >Not a theoretical discussion and a long theoretical insight that it's >likely that quantums exists, but a picture, because how to >make a computer out of particles you don't know how they look >like? Asking what a quantum is doesn't make sense. Quantum is used as the opposite of continuity in this context. What do you mean by "look like"? The best description of an electron is as a probability distribution - you don't point at a certain point in space and say "there it is" because of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Building a quantum computer creates all sorts of problems for physicists, let's hope that they can be resolved. Quantum mechanics is a deep subject, read a couple of books on the subject and the workings of and difficulties with quantum computers will be easier to understand. It's not as mathematically difficult as e.g. the general theory of relativity, but some concepts are hard to grasp. / Gunnar
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