A Physicist and His Gambling Device (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

A Physicist and His Gambling Device

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Physicist Kater Murch in his lab with the dilution freezer for the superconducting qubit he uses to explore quantum space. His latest experiments show that in the quantum world, the future affects the past. Hindsight and foresight together more accurately 'predict' a quantum system's state than foresight alone.

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