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Here is some exciting news in science:
Scientists at the University of Utah have taken an important step toward the day when digital information can be stored in the spin of an atom’s nucleus, rather than as an electrical charge in a semiconductor.”
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“In quantum information, I can have a bit which is zero and one at the same time,” says John Morton, a physicist at the University of Oxford in England. This idea of being in two places at once is hard to explain. Morton says one way to think about it is to imagine there are multiple universes out there.
“Whenever quantum mechanics allows something to exist in two states at the same time, the universe splits,” says Morton, “and you have a universe where it’s one thing and a universe where it’s in the other state. You can along those lines think about a quantum computer as many parallel computers running in different universes.”
