"spooky action at a distance"

[Otto Sell]

Doug, another one:

"The world is much bigger than it looks,"

I love it when scientists come to simple conclusions.

And, as the saying goes, there are many ways to skin a cat:

"Schrödinger imagined a cat in a sealed container in which the radioactive
decay of an atom would trigger the release of cyanide, killing the cat. By
the rules of quantum mechanics the atom was both decayed and not decayed
until somebody looked inside, which meant that Schrödinger's poor cat was
both alive and dead."

Otto
(in a state of Limbo too)

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 10:57 PM
Subject: "spooky action at a distance"


> http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/12/science/12QUAN.html
>
> another excerpt:
> "Ordinary computers store data and perform computations as a series of
> "bits," switches that are either on or off, but in a quantum computer, due
> to the principle of superposition, so-called qubits can be on and off at
the
> same time, enabling them to calculate and store myriads of numbers at a
> time."
>
> --
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