Quantum computers are like kaleidoscopes – why unusual metaphors help illustrate science and technology

Quantum computing is like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to get. Quantum phenomena – the behavior of matter and energy at the atomic and subatomic level – are not exactly definitive. They are opaque clouds of possibilities, or rather: probabilities. When one observes a quantum system, it loses its … Read more