Quantum Experiments

One of the main experiments is a very popular experiment: Schrödinger’s cat. The experiment was not actually performed, it was an in mind experiment. The experiment was that there was a cat inside a box with some poison except no one knew if the cat was dead from drinking the poison, or was alive from not doing so, but the box was sealed off so no one knew if the cat was dead or alive, therefore the cat was considered dead and alive.Another main experience is the Cathode Ray experiment which was actually performed by a scientist named J.J Thomson.The experiment was done in 1904. This experiment proved that there are things that are smaller than an atom. Also known as electrons which then he created the Plum Pudding Model. He thought the atom was a cloud of electrons with the center being a large proton. Another important person who helped with the history of the atom is John Dalton. He made these sets of rules for the atoms. The first one is “All matter which is made up of atoms, which are indivisible”.

The second one is “All atoms of a given element are identical in mass and properties.” The third one is “compounds are combinations of two or more different types of atoms.” The fourth one is “compounds are combinations of two or more different types of atoms.”

Superposition

Superposition is a particle with a chance to appear in multiple places at the same time. An example is When you are in singleplayer like Minecraft you have a chance to spawn in at a random place at the same time. When you are loading it starts off as a perfect wave but when you spawn it becomes a locational wave so you have a guaranteed chance to spawn where you did.

Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing is used for lots of things like quantum algebra which is used in AI or Machine Learning, it is also used for Quantum Simulation and much more. Quantum computing well you probably guessed Quantum Computers! Well… I guess not very surprising but Quantum computers can be used for a lot of good and bad things in society. I’ll name some good ones and the main bad reason as well. The good reasons are that Quantum computers can help with things like finance and medicine. In finance they help predict what the future stocks or popular brands are going to be based on how they are increasing in popularity.

 In medicine the Quantum Computer can easily create medicines for diseases and maybe even cancer. Quantum Computers can also do many negative things to society because it is much easier to calculate unlike a classical computer it can do much bigger equations meaning it can easily hack through governments firewall considering to open you need a specific prime number. Not only that, it can also easily be done in other countries. Plus it has a lot of problems as you need to meet a lot of requirements such as, it needs to be stored in an area with  near absolute zero which is zero kelvins.


Author: Gowtham Narra

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