YouTube – Quantum Shorts 2 – A Tale of Two Viruses

What if explorers between universes carry novel viruses?

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This reading is A Tale of Two Viruses by Connie Chen, a physician in Canada who’s first writing submission was to Quantum Shorts. Now she has the bug. The quantum concept in this story is many worlds or multiverse.

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YouTube – Quantum Shorts 2 – Red Light Blue Light

Can two human hearts be entangled?

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This reading is Red Light, Blue Light by Ioana Burtea, a Canadian-Romanian living in London. She is a technology lawyer and a science fiction writer. The quantum concepts in Red Light, Blue Light are entanglement and superposition.

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YouTube – Quantum Shorts 2 – Better Faster Stronger Lonelier

What if a classical computer and a quantum computer got talking?

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This reading is Better, Faster, Stronger, Lonelier by Alvaro Buendia, a PhD student in Nanophotonics in Madrid, Spain. The quantum concepts are computing and wavefunction. If an artificial intelligence in a quantum computer approaches a human-like self-awareness, will it also suffer human emotions like loneliness?

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