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To: Carolyn who wrote (79)	6/16/2000 8:35:00 PM
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To: Carolyn who wrote (79)	6/16/2000 9:51:00 PM
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Carolyn, Subject 32693 Thanks for the mention of this other thread. (url above) I read a couple posts and enjoyed them, and did a Bookmarked. The follow is not a humor take, that is the on topic of this thread, but the writter does write in an easy and humor like way, and links to serious stuff provided. Its appropriate for the link above, but it may have already been posted. If not, please post it if you would like. Thanks. Doug A quantum computer operates by the rules of quantum weirdness, down in the subatomic realm where our everyday intuitions are violated wholesale. This is a world in which an electron can be in two places at once, in which an atomic nucleus can be spinning clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time. It is a bizarre world in which matter itself dissolves into a ghostly blur of possibilities as soon as you try to look at it. And yet this surreal world is one in which you can do computing, insists Chuang, whose group at Almaden..... Quantum Computing Computers that tap the bizarre properties of sub atomic particles might..... By M. Mitchell Waldrop M. Mitchell Waldrop is a freelance writer who has a PhD in particle physics. He is the author of the book Complexity. His article about computer science pioneer J. C. R. Licklider appeared in the January/February issue of Technology Review. techreview.com