The Quantum Pontiff

Biblical Quantum Humor

Posted by Dave Bacon on December 26, 2007
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What do you call a quantum computer built in the shape of a cubic lattice and containing 450000 qubits?

Noah’s ark, of course! Genesis 6:14. Sorry, I just couldn’t resist.

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  1. #1 Phil Warnell
    December 26, 2007

    Well I guess I got it wrong. I thought it might be a Rubik’s qubit.

  2. #2 p
    December 27, 2007

    You mean Genesis 6:15?

  3. #3 Blake Stacey
    December 27, 2007

    And Solomon’s Temple was 60 qubits by 20 qubits — no wonder the stories from that era always sound so decoherent.

  4. #4 tonyl
    December 27, 2007

    Don’t forget, on the first passover, the angel of death used the First Born Approximation.

  5. #5 Perry
    December 27, 2007

    logical or physical qubits?????

  6. #6 Dave Bacon
    December 27, 2007

    I think they must be logical qubits or else the whole ark would fall apart. On the other hand maybe this is why they haven’t discovered the remains of the ark: all those cubic cubits decohered. (Though this leaves the problem of where the classical bits are…)

  7. #7 Jonathan Vos Post
    December 27, 2007

    Didn’t “the classical bits” get left behind, along with dinosaurs and “the last unicorn”?

  8. #8 Gene
    December 28, 2007

    i thought it was rubik’s cube hehehe