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🗓️ 28 June 2017
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visitacult.co.com.j.j. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.7 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. |
0:37.2 | I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:39.1 | Computers transmit information in bits, zeros and ones, off or on. |
0:43.9 | But in quantum computers, that off-on logic becomes a little more flexible, |
0:48.6 | because the bits in quantum computing, called quantum bits or qubits, |
0:52.9 | can actually be zero and one at the same time. |
0:56.0 | Think of it like this. A coin flipping through the air can be considered to be both heads and tails before it lands. |
1:03.0 | In that way, it's like a qubit. Until you measure it, the qubit is zero and one, just as until the coin lands, it's both heads and tails. But the quantum weirdness goes |
1:13.3 | beyond simple cubits, because physicists have also created pairs of photons, particles of light, |
1:19.1 | called quidits, with a d, for multiple dimensions. And those dimensions are different colors of light. |
1:25.9 | So instead of being just zero and one, like a regular quantum bit, these photon quidits are, |
1:31.5 | for example, simultaneously pink and purple and red and orange. |
1:35.7 | In fact, they can come in as many as 10 different colors, which mathematically means |
1:40.0 | 10 different dimensions compared to the two dimensions of a cubit. Again, if that sounds crazy, |
1:46.3 | just think of a 10-sided dye spinning through the air instead of a two-sided coin. It's all 10 |
1:52.3 | sides at once. The study is in the journal Nature. The big advantage of quantum bits and the point |
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