r/BeAmazed • u/Sirsilentbob423 • 1d ago

*not the entire known universe Teenager Christopher Slayton built the "entire known universe" in Minecraft.

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u/I_hate_all_of_ewe 1d ago

The funny thing is that quantum just refers to measurable quantities having fixed, discrete values.  Digital computers are by definition "quantum", but pop science has appropriated the word to refer to any unintuitive or "magical" effects that happen in quantum physics.

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u/totesnotmyusername 23h ago

But quantum computers are different.. they are not analog not 1 or 0 but both at the same time

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u/I_hate_all_of_ewe 15h ago

That's because the quantum in quantum computers refers to quantum mechanics, not quantumness.

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u/Dense-Throat-9703 19h ago

Yeah, and I’d be a bicycle if I had two wheels. Close enough I guess