{"id":3511,"date":"2013-10-23T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2013-10-22T12:13:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T16:13:44","slug":"quantum-computers-animated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/10\/23\/quantum-computers-animated\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computers &#8211; Animated!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fair enough, the next big thing is the quantum computer&#8230; but what is it exactly?<\/p>\n<p>The exciting scientific details have descended into hearsay. Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/phdcomics?feature=watch\">PHD Comics<\/a>&#8216; animated video below as clarification.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"540\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/T2DXrs0OpHU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/T2DXrs0OpHU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><sup id=\"cite_ref-5\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_computer\">tells<\/a> us that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Practical and theoretical research continues, and many national governments and military funding agencies support quantum computing research to develop quantumcomputers for both civilian and national security purposes, such as\u00a0cryptanalysis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fascinating stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair enough, the next big thing is the quantum computer&#8230; but what is it exactly? The exciting scientific details have descended into hearsay. Watch PHD Comics&#8217; animated video below as clarification. Wikipedia tells us that: Practical and theoretical research continues, and many national governments and military funding agencies support quantum computing research to develop quantumcomputers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4854],"tags":[45031,48524,48521,48525,48523,37455,1822,48520,48526,48522],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3512,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}