Suzi's Qubits
At this direct instant Suzi directs her laser, not without feeling but workmanlike, all knowing, the way she always directs her silicate crystals, doped with rare earth, first the primary laser opaque tincture(P.L.O.T.) and then her secondary laser to let the first pass through. She feels its warmth so vivid, so clear, it feels like love.
"Flipping photons from up to down," she thinks.
Suzi stares at nothingness; she thinks pensively into her algorithm. She gives them more thought--with her original light pulses trapped--more thought still, timeless, tracking her data.This time she views herself, as if in a mirror, within the entirety of her qubit system; a photonic computer in a primal jungle collecting tera qubits of information, each qubit representing several values at one moment. Today, somehow, she views herself through the eyes of her own doped crystals, several entities existing at one moment, exponentially more efficient than her classical cousins and their bulk semiconductors.
Yes, Suzi's photon orientations stay up or down simultaneously until they can be observed--or measured--by someone, or some thing.
For now, her qubits are safe.
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