In a world first, "researchers at NEC and the state-funded Institute of Physical and Chemical Research successfully demonstrated a circuit that can control the state of a pair of elemental particles and how strongly they interact with one another."
Controlling "qubits" is key to building a quantum computer....not to be confused with controlling cupid, though it might about the same difficulty.
The NEC team has also caused "elementary particles to interact with one another and controled their ability to seemingly be in many places at the same time, a concept known as 'superposition' in quantum physics."
According to MSN-Mainich - "Many scientists believe quantum computing -- which takes advantage of the superposition concept -- promises to solve certain factoring, simulation and other intensive problems faster than today's machines that rely on classical physics."
Okay...I admit...I don't know what I am talking/writing about. Quantum physics is scientists attempt to study the behavior of subatomic particles, elctrons, protons, neutrons and such.
The Japanese think they are closer to calculating and controlling these movements. In the end...perhaps my great-great grandchildren will enjoy much faster computing.
Is that about right?
Somebody smarter than me can enlighten me.
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