Wednesday, July 25, 2007
This is an excerpt from an article taken from Innovation Canada's website:
In Raymond Laflamme's universe, objects can occupy more than one space at the same time. Sound crazy? Well, it is, but not in the conventional sense. Occupying more than one space simultaneously is one of the properties of quantum mechanics that Laflamme, the director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, explores daily. He exploits these conditions to develop information processing applications that could revolutionize our lives in the coming years...