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Quantum Edge No. 1.

Welcome to the blog version of the Quantum Edge newsletter. Join me in my year-long journey into the weirdness that is quantum computing.

The Quest for Quantum Enlightenment

I’ve been doing my best to understand how quantum computing works. I have a vague idea, but when it really gets down to it, I just don’t understand how they operate at a fundamental level. I know it involves grids of qubits, entanglement, superposition and a lot of quantum weirdness. That’s a start, but those terms are largely placeholders for knowledge I hope to have one day. I can give you something of a definition of each, but you would likely end up with no better understanding than you started with.

Wibbly-wobbly, quantum-wantum

I can explain a MOSFET switch – the fundamental building block of digital electronics, gates, memory cells and much of the fundamentals of digital logic – but I can’t at all do the same for quantum computing. When I try to explain the quantum fundamentals, even to myself, and when I listen to definitive explanations on YouTube or read them in text, I’m always reminded of David Tennant, as Dr Who, explaining time travel with: “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey… stuff.”

Quantum computing is something really different. And it’s really important. It’s also very difficult to grasp as evidenced by the difficulty even experts have in explaining it.

Toward Quantum Understanding

My mission for 2025, né resolution, is to develop an understanding of how quantum computing works to the point at which I can successfully explain the fundamentals to others. I’ve always taken pride in my ability to simplify complex subjects, and this will be my opportunity to see if that pride is justified.

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Quantum Computing Archive

Below are a few of my prior articles on developments in quantum computing

Quantum Computing Resources