“This is KAOS. We don’t *shush* here!”
Continuing our QUANTUM COMPUTER CRASH-(COLLISION?)-COURSE in prep for our upcoming performance BOUNDED IN A NUTSHELL…
WIRED.COM posted a great article on some new developments in quantum computing.
It seems that a quantum computer’s “brain” works pretty much like a human brain. And that means that certain attempts by scientists to be fastidiously ordered are pretty much null and void.
From the article:
“The new study, published in the March 12 Science, suggests that anxious physicists should just relax. A group of researchers at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby have shown that randomly arranged materials can trap light just as well as ordered ones.
‘We took a very interesting, different approach: relaxing all these ordered structures and using disorder” as a resource, says study coauthor Peter Lodahl. “Let it play with you instead of playing against you.'”
…notes Diederik Wiersma, a physicist at the European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy in Florence, Italy…
…Like a human brain, a quantum brain is not a perfectly ordered structure, he says. “Nature doesn’t need a symmetric structure. It just needs your brain to be working.”
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