In article <[log in to unmask]>, Mark Landin
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>On Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:39:46 -0700, Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>>Starting with a solution of liquid
>>chloroform molecules, and using radio pulses to manipulate the
>>inner magnets of the carbon and hydrogen nucleus in each
>>molecule, the researchers first put each carbon and hydrogen
>>nucleus into a combination or "superposition" of 0 and 1 states, for
>>a total of four possibilities in each molecule.
>
>Can't wait to see an item on the price list labelled "Quantum
>Computing Fluid, 12 oz, field kit".

I tried to order one of these. "You'd better get down here right away",
said the man in the store. "They are going quite fast, and there are
only three left".

Wondering if I would get there before other purchasers, I asked him "how
fast, exactly?"

"Can't tell you that", was his reply, "If I knew exactly how fast they
were going, then I wouldn't know where they were".
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