Whether you quantum or not

[catgate]

I have just come across the latest development in the scientific world ;-

LED entangles light at the flick of a switch

Reliable quantum-bit production could ease the way to high-speed computers.

Putting a quantum dot together with an LED can produce entangled photons on demand. D. Brunner / iStockphoto

UK physicists have made a key step towards practical quantum computing: they have created a light source that fires entangled photons when triggered by an electric current.

Quantum computers exploit the inherent uncertainties of quantum physics to perform calculations much faster than computers currently in use. Whereas conventional 'bits' of information take only the values zero or one, quantum bits, or 'qubits', exist in a fuzzy superposition of both. In theory, this ambiguity allows any number of qubits to be lumped together or 'entangled' and processed in parallel, so that a huge number of calculations can be made at once..

Now it seems to me that quantum physics celebrates the uncertainty of all things (particularly the place/time of particles). Thus the computer may give the correct answer to a calculation or it may not. Never-the-less I can see it having a great future in education in this country, where any old answer will do, because whatever answer you get you will not fail. You will still get a Blue Peter Degree of Equality.

[andsome]

'ER yes.(I think).

[Gandalph]

That sounds like a 'Quantum Leap' for mankind.