Runaway pulsar has astronomers scratching their heads

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Re: Runaway pulsar has astronomers scratching their heads

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:19 pm

From what I can glean from a few google searches, entanglement is used within the quantum logic-gates. There seems to be a prevailing school of thought that it has to be used in order for quantum computing to work at all. I can't claim to have followed much of what I read though.

Also interesting (and far more understandable to me) was the use of entanglement in Quantum Key Distribution. Basically, entangled particles can be used to transmit a one-time-key that cannot be observed in any way by an outsider without breaking the entanglement and it therefore being obvious that the encryption key has been compromised.

But that's nothing to do with pulsars... :tea:
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Re: Runaway pulsar has astronomers scratching their heads

Post by pErvinalia » Tue Mar 04, 2014 1:33 am

Făkünamę wrote: QC uses QE not because it is FTL, but because a 'qubit' represents far more data than a regular old 'bit' which can only be 1 or 0 at any time.
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Re: Runaway pulsar has astronomers scratching their heads

Post by JimC » Tue Mar 04, 2014 2:55 am

The key to quantum computing is not entanglement, nor the possibility of FTL. Qbits, if they can ever be rapidly and consistently manipulated in large numbers, offer the possibility of massively parallel computing.
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Post by JimC » Tue Mar 04, 2014 3:30 am

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Re: Runaway pulsar has astronomers scratching their heads

Post by mistermack » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:42 pm

Breaking news :

The double slit experiment has been scaled up, and has now been proved for things as big as cars :

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Post by mistermack » Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:50 pm

Or even living things :

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/wo ... d-1-169779
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Post by pErvinalia » Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:56 pm

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Re: Runaway pulsar has astronomers scratching their heads

Post by JimC » Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:03 am

Double slit, eh...

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