Quantum Science And Why It Is Exciting!
Joe Joson
Unraveling The Mysteries Of The Physical Universe
I do not know about you but YouTube is simply loaded with tons of interesting subjects on just about any topic that anybody would wish to watch. Their qualities are also increasingly more professional. The result of these new improvements is our ability to get educated in so many subjects of interest for free and they are there available for all 24/7! Slowly, unsolved mysteries of the universe are being understood and solved. One of my many interests is the new technology of quantum science.
Quantum Physics And Its Implications
Now, I am not going to claim that I fully understand this subject all that much. I am not a scientist but I just love the exciting discoveries that scientists share with us using layman language! And Youtube has millions of videos from around the world! So when Covid hit, I have been watching Youtube videos on just about all the topics of interest that I enjoy. One of them is the subject of Quantum science.
Google's Definition Of Quantum Theory
"Quantum theory is the theoretical basis of modern physics that explains the nature and behavior of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level. ... Planck wrote a mathematical equation involving a figure to represent these individual units of energy, which he called quanta."
So What Is My Excitement About Quantum Science?
Aha, so what is the thing that excites me about this science? What can our scientists and engineers do with quantum science, quantum physics or quantum mechanics? My one excitement is the current efforts to use this new theory a technology that will eventually lead to humans building incredibly super fast computers! So fast that mathematical computations that we had no chance of solving can be solved in a very short time using quantum computers!
Classical Computers And Quantum Computers Compared
Classical computers are the present day computers we now use. The point of interest in the comparison between these classical computers and the still to come quantum computers is the huge difference in their computing abilities. Some claim that quantum computers will be able to solve problems that would take our classical computers thousands of years to solve! Now that is truly mind boggling!
Another major difference between the classical computer and the quantum computer are the basic units used in their most basic form. Classical computers use digits such as 0's and 1's while the quantum computers will be using qubits or quantum bits.
To quote from google, "A binary digit, characterized as 0 and 1, is used to represent information in classical computers. ... However, whereas the state of a bit can only be either 0 or 1, the general state of a qubit according to quantum mechanics can be a coherent superposition of both."
This simply states that qubits will be in both 0 or 1 state at any time. This I heard will make calculations much faster than when our bits have to be in either 0 or 1 state at any time as is the case with classical computers.
Affiliate Marketing Businesses And Quantum Computing
At this point in time we may not be able to name any benefit to our business in affiliate marketing and the coming quantum computers or other technologies that will rise from quantum science. I remember using the first personal computers built by Radio Shack. At that time the capabilities of these machines were so limited that we were able to use them only in very 'boring' activities. Now as computers' capabilities increase, we are creating other machines that depend heavily on our present-day super computers. Autonomous electric cars, the self-driving vehicles by Tesla was not possible just a few years ago. Automation of thousands of processes that used to be handled by humans are now being overtaken by robots. This trend will accelerate in much shorter times than they used to take.
Future Computer Programs Will Be Unthinkable
The computing size of computer programs or their capabilities will continue to expand and accelerate in the years to come. Today we have machines that are being taught to create programs. Machine learning is a new development in computer programming where machines now create very powerful programs. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at its infancy but the implications of what AI will be like in the next several decades is breathtaking.
So running basic business operations that are now handled by humans in the form of management teams will then be handled by computer programs. Processes will one day be run by whole computer programs. Humans will become sleepy overseers looking over the 'shoulders' of robotic machines.
Affiliate marketing activities, if this business still exists, will be relegated to robots. Wealthy Affiliate would have evolved into something more advanced by then.
Joe Joson
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Hi Joe, I did an article on AI being used in the health care system. It seems to be gaining momentum here in Canada.
Integrating AI into the healthcare ecosystem allows for a multitude of benefits, including automating tasks and analyzing big patient data sets to deliver better healthcare faster, and at a lower cost. According to Business Insider Intelligence, 30% of healthcare costs are associated with administrative tasks. AI can automate some of these tasks, like pre-authorizing insurance, following-up on unpaid bills, and maintaining records, to ease the workload of healthcare professionals and ultimately save them money.
The use of AI in the healthcare market is growing due to the continued demand for wearable technology, digital medicine, and the industry’s overall transformation into the modern, digital age. Hospitals and healthcare professionals are seeing the benefits of using AI in technology and storing patients’ data on private clouds, like the Google Cloud Platform. AI allows doctors and patients to more easily access health records and assess patient’s health data that is recorded over a period via AI-infused technology.
Scientists are already using AI to develop medical devices. At the University of Alberta, researchers are testing an experimental bionic arm that can “learn” and anticipate the movements of an amputee. Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a tool that can look at your retina and automatically detect signs of diabetic blindness.
There is a risk though: For machines to learn, they need vast amounts of information. Since that initial data comes from humans, some of that information can be tainted by personal bias especially if the algorithm isn’t fed a diverse data set. For example, an algorithm trained on mostly Caucasian patients is not expected to have the same accuracy when applied to minorities. In addition, such rigorous evaluation and re-calibration must continue after implementation to track and capture those patient demographics and practice patterns which inevitably change over time.
Between 5G networks and AI we may or may not be creating our own doomsday machine.
Regards,
Michael
The 'baby AI' that we humans are playing with at this time could become a humongous entity very soon. The exponential growth is simply unthinkable. When machines create programs and these programs turn around and create more programs, there is no limit to what we will have even in the next 15 to 20 years and beyond.
Will we have 'monster machines' one day? Very likely. But careful human monitoring and management will then be a huge necessity similar to how we have been handling the threat of nuclear energy.
In the field of medicine, AI will not just handle the admin and all other processes. They are now part of the diagnostic teams not only in medicine but all across the board.
Thanks for this huge feedback Michael!
Joe
Hi Joe, you have hit the nail on the head when you say, "But careful human monitoring and management will then be a huge necessity similar to how we have been handling the threat of nuclear energy".
Michael
The same is true for the way we handle fire. We use the heat but the same heat can damage many things. The good applications simply outweigh the disadvantages.
Joe
Hi Joe,
I was actually planning on writing a blog post on quantum physics (for about 3 months now) but you have done an excellent job, so I'll just add my comments in this post. I agree that AI and (someday) quantum computers will be a total game-changer for affiliate marketing.
Quantum superposition is the ability for a particle or sub particle to be in any of two possible states simultaneously. This quantum-mechanical anomaly was initially predicted by certain inconsistencies in wave mechanics (all matter can be mathematically described as both a particle and a wave).
I could go on and on until all my beloved WA community members "unfollowed me" but I'll just say that Erwin Schrodinger came up with an interesting analogy to make quantum superposition more palatable for those that wanted a somewhat practical explanation.
Check out the "Schrodinger's Cat" thought experiment on Wikipedia. The basic concept here is that the cat is BOTH alive AND dead until it is actually observed by opening the box. So, the cat is in quantum superposition (alive & dead), and then "quantum decoherence" occurs and it "chooses" to be EITHER alive or dead, during which point the observer will find note the final outcome. The observer never sees the cat as being both alive and dead because of many things, including the speed at which quantum decoherence occurs.
This is the power behind quantum computers that have a 3 qubit state, as Joe pointed out ( 0, 1, 0 and 1 simultaneously). The Canadian company "D Wave" makes and sells quantum computers (check it out)! They are very big, expensive, and not practical because of the temperature and magnetic constraints they require to maintain quantum superposition.
I have a healthcare website on WA, which is very competitive nice. I am planning on starting a guitar instruction site, which is also very competitive, with thousands of youtube instructional videos already available.
Therefore, I have been thinking about starting a quantum physics site but (if you are still with me) what could I possibly sell there. What do mathematics and physics nerds buy? I can't sell cyclotrons or entangled protons. Please help with suggestions!
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My background, as it relates to quantum physics (spoiler alert: very boring, so read on at your own risk) ------>
I don't have direct expertise in quantum physics. I'm just a guitar player gone bad (with degrees in chemistry, engineering, medicine, and health informatics - so yes, real bad).
I work as a consultant with physicists and mathematicians for "quantum blockchain", as applied to electronic health record software, mostly Epic and Cerner. You may all recognize blockchain as the multiuser smart contract ledger that powers the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.
I got involved in this tech to increase the security of our electronic health records, which will eventually use a "blockchain-like" algorithm to make all the various types of medical record software "interoperable", so one type can completely pass healthcare data to another. Why they are not already interoperable is another whole discussion. To make blockchain even more secure, quantum blockchain uses a quantum mechanically generated security key.
Frank
Hello there Frank.
I say...you have blown my mind away...ha ha ha. But history tells us that a lot of great inventions and discoveries are simply end results of sometimes unplanned and random processes by a lot of curious minds. You have been into a lot of things and I would say...stay with it Frank.
I look at the billions of stars and the billions of planets even just in our own Milky Way galaxy. That is a lot of 'brain power' in this universe. We do need to find out and see what we need to do when the universe stops expanding... ; )
Thanks for dropping by Frank!
Joe
Hi Joe,
Glad I amused you a little and it was a pleasure adding a little extra info to your exellent post. Your post actually gave me the kick in the butt I needed to write my own post after I made my comments here. I realize that WA isn't really the forum for this type of subject matter and that's why I was hesitant (also a little lazy).
You are absolutely correct about some of the greatest discoveries comming to light via a happy accident, but like all great things, bringing theory into a practice takes lots of hard work and perserverence. The often quoted story of Isaac Newton seeing an apple fall from a tree (which is in some dispute by various scientific historians) and then discovering gravity is an outstanding example. He never was able to figure out what gravity actually was (enter Einstein for that) but he STILL developed the physics to be able to calculate exactly how it would behave (in a non-relativistic frame of reference). So, sometimes you don't even need to understand something completely to make a phenomenal contribution. I wish that I was only a fraction of that smart :-)
Frank
I heard that Einstein, as super smart as he was, had to seek the mathematical geniuses among his circle of friends to solve some of his challenges.
Thanks Frank.
Joe
Hi Joe,
Einstein's wife was a mathematician and she frequently double checked his math. He became obsessed with what he later called special relativity after noticing a bit of an interesting discrepancy in James Clerk Maxwell's work on what later became known as Maxwell's equations. These equations basically explain the mathematical relationship between electricity and magnetism, which was an expansion of previous work empirically done on electromagnetism and electrochemistry by Michael Faraday. Although Maxwell died the year that Einstein was born, his work was still very instrumental in helping Einstein with the mathematical concepts that describe space and time.
Einstein worked with and depended on the mathematical input of many friends and colleagues throughout his career. We all do this in our own fields of work or study, no matter what we do in life. Collaborative efforts can be a great option if you work with the right people.
Its fun to learn about those who are so much smarter and capable than I will ever be. As a guitar player my primary interest will always be music so I mostly study the lives and contributions of great musicians and composers. :-)
Frank
I love all the interesting things on YouTube, too! I'm not one to watch the crazy, "watch this" kind of stuff but the explanations, the theories, and the learning...it is wonderful! Thanks for bringing yet another area to my attention.
Youtube, while loaded with a lot of truly useful information is like you said loaded with a lot of not-too-useful material. Our subjects and topics are our choice to watch. And there are a ton of choices.
Thanks for dropping by Diane.
Joe
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Very interesting subject indeed. One of my favorite, in fact. I think quantum computing has the potential to create instantaneous computations. However, it's in it's infancy, comparable to the development of the computer some 70 years ago. So unfortunately, we are likely many years away from something practical.
When it's does come though, we'll see computing and connectivity unlike anything imaginable today. Perhaps it may even give us the ability to communicate instantly across light-years of space.
Then all's we'll need is warp drive...haha
Enjoyed the read.
Michael
A great Amen Michael! I have this feeling that the distance of light years has its equivalent technological solution where we may travel to the stars with systems equal to or better than the warp drive.
'They' are here on Earth. ; )
Thanks for dropping by!
Joe
So it's not likely that I will be able to buy an affordable quantum laptop any time soon.
Unfortunately not yet Neil. But when it does come, we will be in for a major 'shift'!
Joe