Emily Kwong
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We go beyond the quantum hype to get a sense of where the science really is.
You're listening to Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR.
OK, Katie, let us start with quantum physics itself.
And I love the movie Ant-Man, whose plot was very dependent on this.
What is an example of how subatomic particles behave in weird ways?
And in the world of quantum, it means superposition means that particles could be doing many things at once.
What does this have to do with quantum computing?
How does that compare to classical computing paradigms?
This is why people say quantum computers can try out a lot of possibilities all at once.
Because it's just processing so many things in parallel.