Hello!
This is Cynthia sue Larson with RealityShifters dot com
I'm welcoming you today to the Quantum Age.
You might be familiar with the Stone Age, the Bronze Age,
the Iron Age, the Industrial Age
and the Information Age. You might be wondering,
"If we just started the Information Age, how is it possible
that we could already be in something new?" And if you're noticing
how those ages each corresponded with a form of technology,
then I think you know where I'm going with this today. Just as the Information Age
was a complete revolution from the Industrial Age
so that someone writing books like I do who would have used typesetting and
typewriters
in the Industrial Age now would use
computers such as laptops. You've probably heard
that there's a lot of research going on right now with quantum computing.
If you haven't heard about it, then this is something I would love you to take a
look at
because this is what prompts me to
welcome us right now into this exciting new age. I'm going to show you a picture
of something called the D-Wave-Two, and it's just a little
black box here that you can see. This little black box
has brought a price of $10 million dollars
for a couple of companies and organizations that have purchased it
including Google and this
new device will be going online working with the quantum artificial intelligence
lab at
Ames Research Center in September 2013.
So this is really our first step forward into the Quantum Age.
This is the very beginning introductory
quantum computer which might be analogous to
the ENIAC computer that ushered in the Information Age back in 1946.
So what's so different right now? And why is it
that one kind of computer such as a quantum computer would be considered
a whole step forward on such an exponential scale
that it's worthy of an entire age being named after it?
What's so special about it is the qubit--
the quantum bit. With existing classical computers
from our Information Age, we've got bits that are either zeros
or ones. They cannot exist in both states at the same time,
and therefore they give us the sense that information can be stored, can be
copied,
and upon this we depend entirely for all of the information
contained in libraries that we use to keep
on books on shelves so that if these libraries in Alexandria,
for example, were burned or damaged, there would go a wealth
of history's treasures--
information treasures. Right now, those treasures
of humanity's, for the most part exist in bits and bytes stored on
computers.
And a qubit--a quantum bit--
is extremely different. It is as different from
a classical computer bit as that classical
is from a typewriter. Here's why.
A qubit--the quantum bit--is capable of containing information
which exists in multiple states simultaneously.
So every single qubit--every single little piece of information that could be
either a zero or a one
is a zero and a one. It could be just the zero, or could be just the one, or could be both. Now this
may seem very simple, and like, "Who cares about that?" but as soon as you've got
more than one qubit gathered in any place,
something super amazing happens. So if you've got two qubits--
and they can be separated across a very great distance--
you know for sure that if you measure one of them, you'll get a random answer.
And that random answer would be either the zero or the one in our
very simple example. If it is entangled with
another qubit, and this entangled
qubit gives us an answer of zero, for example, we'll know for sure
that the other qubit that we're not even measuring right now is definitely
in the opposite state. So for this very simplistic example, that would be a one.
You could think of it like flipping two coins. You've got them
separated across a great distance--maybe in different rooms in a house.
And if I'm flipping a coin in one room, and it happens to come up a randomly
Heads, then I'll know for sure that the entangled coin in the other room was
going to be coming up Tails,
which is the basis for the phenomenal power of
quantum computing--this just touches on it. Actually,
quantum computing is amazing because it's making
use of all of the "spooky action at a distance" properties of quantum physics--
everything from quantum teleportation, quantum superposition of states,
quantum coherence, quantum entanglement,
and using it for practical everyday life.
This will in turn have a huge effect on humanity
just as the Information Age has transformed our lives.
There is hardly a person alive right now in the civilized world
whose life has not been touched by this Information Age,
and the same thing will be true of the Quantum Age.
So even if you don't understand what a cubit is,
you will start recognizing increasingly the ideas behind quantum computing that
are in everyday life. So, for example,
when it comes to something as seemingly far out as quantum entanglement,
you'll notice that that explains the kind intuition we so often have...
that we'll really know what's going on with another person even when we are separated
by a great distance. With quantum teleportation,
this is something that is being observed in quantum biology in
everything from our noses to what's going on with birds
sense of direction when they
seem to have an unerring sense of which direction to go.
For us, quantum teleportation might explain
sometimes when people go a great distance in a very short period of time.
These are the kind of stories that have often been reported through RealityShifters.com
Another exciting possibility, of course, would be quantum coherence
which enables us to finally have an explanation for synchronicity
and for coincidence. And last but not least,
that superposition of states in which you can have both a zero and a one
at the same time--this enables us to start having a mechanism from which we
can explain things
including spontaneous remission of disease,
near death experiences, and lucid dreams,
where we really physically get a sense of experiencing
other parallel universes and realities.
So welcome to the Quantum Age!
This is Cynthia Sue Larson with RealityShifters.com