Five Practical Uses for Spooky Quantum Mechanics
Five Practical Uses for Spooky Quantum Mechanics
Fifty years after Bell’s Theorem, tools that harness the weird properties of quantum mechanics are at work all around you
By Nicola Jenner / SMITHSONIANMAG.COM / DECEMBER 1, 2014
Here are five of the most intriguing:
1: Ultra-Precise Clocks
2: Uncrackable Codes
3: Super-Powerful Computers
4: Improved Microscopes
5: Biological Compasses
