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How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment (2013)

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Re: How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment (2013)

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Side note, with the invasion scare it's been almost impossible to buy any sort of consumer radiation monitors. Everything is sold out or on backorder.

Sorry, what "invasion scare"?

Are you suggesting there has been no invasion? Anyway they made explicit threats.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-warns-baltic-nuc...

Re: How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment (2013)

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Side note, with the invasion scare it's been almost impossible to buy any sort of consumer radiation monitors. Everything is sold out or on backorder.

Sorry, what "invasion scare"?

The parent is referring to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, stoking fears of a bigger and possibly nuclear war.

Re: How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment (2013)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, what "invasion scare"?

Are you suggesting there has been no invasion? Anyway they made explicit threats. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-warns-baltic-nuc...

> Are you suggesting there has been no invasion?

If there has been an invasion (of where, exactly? Presumably Ukraine?) then it is not a "scare".

I assume you are talking about Finnland, Sweden and Russia?

Re: How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment (2013)

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I just played this online Qubit game that I thought I would put down after a few minutes. Ended up playing for 50 min to finish and actually got a much better sense of how quantum computers work than before. https://quantumai.google/education/thequbitgame

Relatedly, I recently discovered https://algassert.com/quirk — it does require a bit of quantum computing knowledge to use, but the UI is excellent, and I found it incredibly useful for ‘getting a feel’ of how various quantum algorithms work.

This website is incredibly helpful for quick simulation. My favorite design detail is that the circuits are stored in the url, allowing easy bookmarking or sharing of some specific circuit.

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TIL that there readily available radioactive material/disks sold online…

Smoke detectors have radioactive material

Not all though. Photoelectric detectors also exist and seem to be more common in homes these days.

Re: How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment (2013)

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You can create superpositions with guitar strings.

Not a physicist, so maybe I have a completely wrong idea. But is not superposition of waves different than (in any event less surprising than) superposition in discrete particles?
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