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“Haggar Physicists Develop ‘Quantum Slacks,’” read a headline in the satirical weekly
The Onion. By exploiting a bizarre “Schrödinger’s Pants” duality, these non-Newtonian
pants could paradoxically behave like formal wear and casual wear at the same time. The
Onion writers were apparently spoofing the breathless accounts of quantum computing
that have filled the popular press for years. If so, they picked an obvious target: many of
those articles were ripe for parody. “Unlike a classical bit,” the typical article might read,
“a quantum bit—or ‘qubit’—can be 0 and 1 at the same time. As a result, such a machine
could instantly break ‘unbreakable’ codes by trying all possible keys at once.”
It doesn’t take an Einstein to smell something fishy in that assertion. After all, what
would the world be like if there were a machine able to examine all possible solutions to
a problem in parallel, and then immediately zero in on the right one like......


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