Keeping up to date

I just looked at my old blog.  My God, it has been 8 years since I posted anything.  Well, we need to fix that.

Since I am legally blind (no, don't pity me -- I am doing just fine, thank you) I get to down load and listen to a library of many hundreds of books of all sorts and from a myriad of authors and subjects.  Thank you VA!  And also think you Dr. Walter Trenschel.  Dr. T (as we call him) is the resident Psychologist at the VA Hospital in West Palm Beach Florida.  He creates a support group by phone for those of us who want to help ourselves by helping other blind vets.  This group has gotten me rather well acquainted with Dr. T.  He has led me into some subjects I did not know existed.  Things like "Hermetic Teachings" and "Noetics".  But somehow I found myself into Quantum Physics -- looking at things that are so small we can't imagine; and looking at some of the newer quantum theories.  I must admit that most of these subjects are way over my head but they are very interesting. And a little spooky (as Einstein put it). I need to read the "Dummies" version just to understand the basics.

For example, I have learned that an electron can be in two places at the same time (super position). And when you try to measure something as small as a quantum, it changes just because it is being measured.  And entanglement is really complicated -- causing a particle to spin and react by reverse spinning another particle millions of light years away (can we go faster than light?)  Whoa -- lets slow down a little here.  Why would anyone but a brainy physicist want to know all this stuff?  What I am leading to is the next level of computers -- called Quantum Computers.  They use all this stuff.  Once they are invented, they will attain unbelievable speeds unheard of today -- millions of times faster.

Now I want to back up a little -- as folks my age like to do.  I mean I want to go way way back a little -- back to the bible.  That's pretty far back.  Genesis tells us that when Noah was ordered to build his ark, he was told to build it 200 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high.  We are told that a cubit was the measuring unit of that time and was the distance from the elbow to the middle finger or about 20 inches.  Why am I telling you this? What does it have to do with quantum computers.  You won't believe this -- |The unit of measure of a quantum computer is a "bit"  just like any computer. BUT--  a quantum computer has "quantised" the measurement into a quantum bit -- Q - BIT  or qubit.  Does that sound familiar? Qubit -- cubit?

Now don't tell this old guy that things don't come around -- just like Einstein said -- "The whole universe is one big circle.

That is it from the Heart of Olaf Hart.