Artificial intelligence is the latest rage, but quantum mechanics has been around for more than 100 years. Ever since Heisenberg postulated with his matrix, and the wave-particle nature of light that you can’t know position or probability at the same time, we found out that the act of observation actually changes everything. Einstein famously countered with his thought that God does not play dice with the universe. He was relatively wrong. This was another great breakthrough in how we see the universe. Energy and very little matter are not continuous but occurred in interval bursts called quanta. Hence the name. Electrons jump from different, discrete, orbital clouds, giving off signature radiation of both particles and waves that were not predictable or observable. We live our lives in personal quantum intervals, performing in bursts and resting when tired. We rest the uphill ski and leg as we shred, walk, run or cycle. Sisters and sorority girls cycle at the same time. We appreciate the pause in music and the negative space in art. Rivers run in alternating rapid-pool sequences, and waves in the ocean come in on 8-13 second intervals. Water morphs differently when observed. Quantum extrapolations predicted alternative universes with folds in the fabric of the space-time continuum and begged for new mathematics beyond Newtonian calculus to solve for the practical results we desperately wanted. And so we applied it to lasers, transistors and quantum computers, turning the black and white, binary digital world into a technicolor quantum world where we are gods. How cool is that? Quantum computers are not binary but use quantum particles called qubits and photons to solve for an infinite range of solutions almost instantaneously. This may be a great assistance to AI and crypto mining in sensing new phenomena and performing critical matrix operations
Water and Whatever: From <b>quantum</b> mechanics to God's ear
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