• Barbarian
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    3 hours ago

    I’m also not an expert on this, but from my limited knowledge, the problem with measurements collapsing a qubit into either 1 or 0 is because they’re so small and so finicky that any measurement is by nature destructive. They’re small enough that throwing a photon at it causes them to lose information, and you can’t measure them without throwing a photon at it.

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPM
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      6 minutes ago

      This is the part I don’t understand, if we are not defining (measuring) 1s and 0s, then what is going on?

      How do you represent data, execute commands on data if there are no 1s and 0s.