Qubits!

Went for a Physics Symposium at NTU today.

Sat through 3 lectures on

• The Photoelectric Effect,
• Quantum Spintronics, and Quantum Computing, and
• Superconductivity

I really enjoyed the lecture on Quantum Computing given by a certain professor called Sankar Das Sarma. Now I'm interested to learn more about Quantum Computing, Qubits, and related stuff...

Found a good website on answers.com when searching for qubits: Qubit.org. Seems to have a lot of infomation on the topic.

I liked what Prof Sankar said about trying to predict the next revolution in Physics. Many times, people try extrapolating the current trends to attempt to predict what would happen 50 years or 100 years down the road, but as Prof Sankar puts it, they fail to realise that "Technology does not progress through extrapolation, it advances in Leaps!"

One living in the 18 century would be wrong to say that "since we have gone from travelling at 15 km/h on foot to 50 km/h on horse carriages in 1000 years, means that we would take another 1000 years to travel at 100 km/h".

I won't be able to make it for tomorrow's session cos of commitments in SAS. But I'm hoping to attend the lectures on Friday about Ciphers and Computers, as well as the talk by the Nobel Laureate... Perhaps get my ISIC Card done also...