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Most people in quantum information science try to be sensitive to not overhyping the field. (Okay, so I get a little breathless sometimes!) This, however, is pretty amusing. I especially like
But could you imagine not using a Quantum Computer to come up with the most efficient sequence of nanobots to administer the cure to cancer.
Quantum-nano-bio!
Update: Jon brings up in the comments the word “quantum leap.” I have always found it amusing that in the Oxford English dictionary uses this example from 1977, as one of the early uses:
New Yorker 13 June 108/2 The imperial Presidency did not begin with Richard Nixon although under him abuses of the office took a quantum leap.
Of course once you find this out, you are at the OED website and you can’t help finding words like “quaquadrate” which means a sixteenth power.
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February 9th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
I’ve always had difficulty with the phrase ‘quantum leap’. It bothers me that it is taken to mean a significant advance when literally it would seem to describe the smallest possible advance.
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February 10th, 2006 at 5:58 am
It’s OK Jon. The mainstream media just uses a different value for Planck’s constant……
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February 10th, 2006 at 10:42 am
I don’t like it when people use “light years” as a unit of time.
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February 10th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Yes, but can you make the Kessel run in under twelve parsecs?
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February 10th, 2006 at 10:47 am
It depends on whether I have Chewy (spelling?) with me or not. Without that big furball, I am all talk and no action.
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February 10th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Best. SNL. Sketch. EVER…
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