Quantum computers are like kaleidoscopes − why unusual metaphors help illustrate science and technology
Associate Dean of Research & Graduate Education and Professor of Communication Sorin Adam Matei discusses quantum computing in a new, kaleidoscopic light with The Conversation.
"Quantum computing is like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates: You never know what you’re gonna get. Quantum phenomena – the behavior of matter and energy at the atomic and subatomic levels – are not definite, one thing or another. They are opaque clouds of possibility or, more precisely, probabilities. When someone observes a quantum system, it loses its quantum-ness and 'collapses' into a definite state."
Read Professor Matei's full article at The Conversation.