http://www.junkopia.net/index.php/archives/2006/02/23/deep-thought/ Online presence of a no-longer-part-time Englishman and serial film maker. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:25:45 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.junkopia.net/index.php/archives/2006/02/23/deep-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-4599 Paul Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:35:16 +0000 http://www.junkopia.net/index.php/archives/2006/02/23/deep-thought/#comment-4599 "quantum interrogation is a technique that makes use of wave-particle duality (in this case, of photons) to search a region of space without actually entering that region of space." - Sounds like scifi 'scanners'/'sensors' to me - being able to tell what is out there without looking, or going there. “quantum interrogation is a technique that makes use of wave-particle duality (in this case, of photons) to search a region of space without actually entering that region of space.” – Sounds like scifi ’scanners’/’sensors’ to me – being able to tell what is out there without looking, or going there.

]]> http://www.junkopia.net/index.php/archives/2006/02/23/deep-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-4598 kelvingreen Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:36:04 +0000 http://www.junkopia.net/index.php/archives/2006/02/23/deep-thought/#comment-4598 <i>"In a sense, it is the possibility that the algorithm could run which prevents the algorithm from running," Kwiat said. "That is at the heart of quantum interrogation schemes, and to my mind, quantum mechanics doesn't get any more mysterious than this."</i> Yikes. Imagine trying to debug that... “In a sense, it is the possibility that the algorithm could run which prevents the algorithm from running,” Kwiat said. “That is at the heart of quantum interrogation schemes, and to my mind, quantum mechanics doesn’t get any more mysterious than this.”
Yikes. Imagine trying to debug that…

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