Found myself in a bit of an internet information wormhole tonight...
Simply by reading an article about AI...(Microsoft's $10 Billion investment/acquisiton)
The article about AI mentioned "quantum computing"...
Which lead me to the basics of quantum mechanics...
And the question of: does quantum mechanics violate the laws of logic?
I was exposed briefly in College to QM nearly 20 years ago, but it was right around the time I was transitioning from student to stoner....
The stuff is interesting to me but my internet wormhole got me DEEP IN THE WEEDS of vocabulary and math. I am above average in those things, but it was still a little too much for my 2 AM brain. I've closed the browsing windows now...
In super layman terms:
If particle X COULD be here, OR it COULD be there....quantum mechanics treats it as being in BOTH places...for the purposes of...well, the whole thing, I guess... Fuck it!?
So it's kind of like a probability cloud?
I'm familiar with the "light-slit" experiment...it doesn't make QM any easier to understand IMO.
I'm asking, not telling. Feel free to comment, particularly if you've studied QM
Here's your research music as you read: