Rizwan Virk
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So it's the same thing as Schrodinger's cat, whereas we have a bit of information, right?
So what are the values that a bit can have?
That's like the basic unit of information.
And the bit can only have one of those values.
Like on my iPhone or my laptop, if you look down, all the way down into hardware, you can look at the registers.
Like when I was at MIT, we actually built a computer in class from scratch.
You'll see there's some voltage that says this is a 1 or this is a 0.
All the computing, everything we're doing with video streaming, like all that stuff, comes down to having a bit that can be either a 0 or a 1.
It has to be one or the other.
Quantum computing has these things called qubits, Q-U-B-I-T-S, qubits, which a qubit is like Schrodinger's cat.
doesn't just have a value of a 1 or a 0.
Superposition means a superset of all the positions that are possible.