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IBM Tech Detects & Changes Spin of Single Electron

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like we have another step forward in Quantum Computing - IBM has discovered how to detect and change the spin of a single electron. Won't be long before we're all solving impossible encryption problems. "

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  1. Oh Yea? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Won't be long before we're all solving impossible encryption problems.

    Oh yea? Solve this!
    Tbshpxlbhefrysfznegthl!

  2. Damnit! by Cyn · · Score: -1, Troll

    By posting the URL to this article, you've forced the uncertainty about their claims. How can we know just how much momentum this discovery carries?

    Now - my article is much more momentous and certain. Unfortunately, due to a quantum mechanical technicality - for it to remain that way - I cannot divulge its location.

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    cyn, free software and *nix operating systems enthusiast.
  3. Re:Why is this a troll? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I agree with you entirely and I insist that this post be moderated to +5 insightful.

  4. Re:Hmmmm. by cluckshot · · Score: 0, Troll

    It finally falls! That most unscientific of all principals is now proved wrong by IBM. Sorry about being so blunt but this is the upshot of what the discovery is. Yes you can know the energy level, the spin and the location at the same time. I know how upset the physics guys who banked their life on the idiot Nazis warped unscientific thinking but Heisenberg was WRONG!

    Why do I call it unscientific? Simple~! The reason for science is that you believe you can if method and learning advance sufficiently obtain any information in the universe. Do I need to state that saying you cannot obtain some information is Unscientific?

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  5. Appeal to Authority by Inthewire · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mod all Wikipedia posts down.
    Wikipedia is often a synonym for "uninformed shithead"

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    Writers imply. Readers infer.