Good to see you! You’ve decided to take the adventure.
At the end of the course, you will have a better idea of what the future looks like.
But first, we'll take a look at the history.
“The laws of physics did not apply to such small particles…”
To understand how small these particles are, we have a little assignment for you. You will find it on the next screen.
A quick summary…
Everything around us is made up of smaller parts. Take a glass of water for example, it is made up of water molecules (H2O).
Those molecules consist of even smaller parts.
These are called atoms: a core surrounded by electrons.
Einstein’s findings accelerated the development of quantum mechanics
Increasing numbers of scientists decided to delve into photons, the particles that light is made of. This brought up a fundamental question.
Jacco’s last sentence is a nice summary:
“We’re building on 100 years of research by brilliant physicists. This expresses itself in what may be a new way of computation: a quantum computer.”
And that concludes the short history of quantum.
By now you know a bit more about the history of quantum mechanics. Time to travel back to the present.
In the next chapter you’ll get acquainted with the building blocks of quantum computer: the quantum bits!
