Re:An explanation of quantum computing?? (Score 1)

Don't understate the power of the quantum logic gate. The quantum computer isn't merely moving around the processors so all of the jumps happen in the same cycle. A quantum computer uses a fundamentally different logic gate. In essence, the 1 and the 0 are both registered at the same time because what's being registered is not the particle, but the probability of where the particle might go. The probabilities are what are manipulated by the hardware, and where the electrons actually go determines the answer. This is as simple as it gets. However, I know that this probably doesn't make much sense to a lot of people. (It only makes some sense to me because I had to write a report on quant. computation&cryptography and neg. probability.) My advice to anyone who is not extremely well-versed in both computer science and quantum mechanics (there are like a dozen of them on the planet) is to find a book on the subject. I'd recommend G.L. Milburn's "The Feynman Processor" (he's one of those dozen).

That's just my two cents though.

Mike