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Justin Trudeau explains the basics of quantum computing to reporters

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Re: Justin Trudeau explains the basics of quantum computing to reporters

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He went around the perimeter institute building in Waterloo Ontario in Canada and spent some time learning the basics and trying to understand the work that they do there. He did understand the basic ideas that he was saying, it wasn't just a script and he was active and engaged learning throughout the day. Obviously he won't understand very much detail about it, but he doesn't need to. He is a prime minister, not wo…

Can you point out to me in his quote what exactly you claim he understood? "A quantum state can be much more complex than that, because as we know, things can be both particle and wave at the same time and the uncertainty around quantum states allows us to encode more information into a much smaller computer."

Not sure what you mean here? He spent some time learning and asking questions to some very knowledgeable people in the quantum computing field. Are you trying to imply that he somehow despite all the time he spent that day did not learn anything at all about the quantum computing field? PR stunt or not he spent a good amount of time with these people and I don't see how he would not have learned anything there.

Re: Justin Trudeau explains the basics of quantum computing to reporters

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Do you honestly believe that the majority of people (hell, even 10% of people) could explain it to even the level he did? It's still a layman's level -- his response is clearly over-simplified and I doubt he could show the math behind any of it -- but it's far and above what the average person could tell you about the subject.

Right. In fact I'd bet that 10% is a very generous estimate. I'd be surprised if it's even 1%.

Yes, but almost half of americans understand completely how we were created intelligently.

Re: Justin Trudeau explains the basics of quantum computing to reporters

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Watching dozens of videos of Americans answering geography questions would lead me to disagree with you on what the average person knows about quantum physics.

Look at how engineering students answer a question about gravity. http://www.falstad.com/gravity.html > Physics 324 - Modern Physics for Engineers > "A body is at rest tends to stay at rest, plus there's no gravity" > "The gravity of the moon can be said to be negligible, and also the moon's a vacuum, there is no external force on the pen. Therefore it will float where it is." > "The pen will float away because the g…

The answers are kind of scary about the state of science education...
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