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Quantum Computers an objective understanding

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Channel: Dyslexic Artist Theory on the Physics of Time · 2013 · Science & Technology

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To have an objective understanding of quantum computers that fits in with the reality of our everyday life we would need an objective understanding of quantum mechanics itself.
 A quantum computer makes direct use of quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement to perform operations. Instead of having Bits we have qubits  or quantum bits that can be zero and one at the same time.
There are a number of physical objects that can be used as a qubit like a single photon or an electron. Scientists have used the outer most electron of an atom as a qubit. It works because all electrons have magnetic fields they are like little bar magnets and this property is called spin. They have spin up and spin down just like a classical bit having 1 or 0. But the big differences is that they can have spin up or spin down at the same time and this is where the quantum computer gets its superior computing power from.
There is no logical or classical explanation of why a single photon or electron can represent a quantum bit or qubit and therefore represent zero and one at the same time.
This video will put forward the idea that we don't have a logical explanation of this because we don't have a complete understanding of the nature of 'time' as a physical process. The only explanation is that 'time' is an emergent property with the future continuously coming into existence photon by photon within a Universe of continuous creation.

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