Used to describe a technique in visual arts to create complexity or depth.

Visual Arts

Implies a physical placement of items one over another.

Physical Placement

Refers specifically to the interaction and combination of waves in physics.

Wave Interaction

Unlike its other uses, in physics, it doesn't involve physical stacking of objects.

Not Physical

In geology, used for understanding the chronological order of rock layers.

Historical Sequence

In geology, it suggests a natural process, not a deliberate action.

No Human Action

In mathematics, it relates to combining solutions of equations to find a new solution.

Mathematical Solutions

Indicates a precise method in mathematics, not an estimation or guess.

Not Guesswork

 But it turns out that quantum entanglement has been confirmed in real world lab experiments. Two subatomic particles entangled in a superposition state, where if one spins one way then the other must spin the other way, will do just that, even when there's no way for information to pass from one particle to the other

What can Schrödinger's...

 the moment we read it, the qubit resolves into a zero or a one. But even though we can’t observe the qubit in its superposition, we can manipulate it to perform particular operations while in this state. So as a problem grows more complicated, a classical computer needs correspondingly more bits to solve it,

The high-stakes race to...

 They also operate serially; they can only do one thing at a time. Quantum computers operate probabilistically, and most importantly, they operate simultaneously, thanks to three properties -- superposition, entanglement and interference -- which allow them to explore many possibilities at once.

The promise of quantum...

 quantum superposition but it needs a little help to do it here let me give you an analogy you know uncomfortable it is to be in a crowded elevator I'm when I'm in an elevator all alone I like do all sorts of weird things but then other people get on board and I stopped

Making sense of a...

 In fact, it's essential. If it weren't possible for quantum objects to be in two states at once, the computer you're using to watch this couldn't exist. The quantum phenomenon of superposition is a consequence of the dual particle and wave nature of everything.

Schrödinger's cat: A...

 to make this swimming pool-shaped hole underneath the device. This device has the ability to be in a quantum superposition, but it needs a little help to do it. Here, let me give you an analogy. You know how uncomfortable it is to be in a crowded elevator?

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 One of the distinctive features of the quantum world is the possibility of state superpositions, where particles’ positions or velocities can be simultaneously in two or more different states. If you can put the electron into a superposition

This thought experiment...

 a zero or a one, or a current flipping on and off inside your computer chip. A quantum computer is completely different. A quantum bit has a more fluid, nonbinary identity. It can exist in a superposition, or a combination of zero and one,

A beginner's guide to...

 And when we have two qubits in superposition, we're actually working across all four combinations of zero-zero, zero-one, one-zero and one-one. With three qubits, we're working in superposition across eight combinations, and so on.

In the war for...

 We have free license to rotate and translate both of the molecules as we wish. Remarkably though, no matter how we move the molecules, we find that perfect superposition is impossible to achieve.

Superposition