You've pretty much addressed the crux of the matter. The Chinese are EXTREMELY anally retentive about reputation, especially when it comes to reputation relative to Japan. To say that a Chinese martial arts style is inferior to a Japanese martial arts style is akin to a declaration of war. Not to mention that each individual martial arts form has their own sense of pride....
I highly doubt the article is talking about using electron spin to store data. For every spin up electron, there has to be a spin down electron to counter its spin, unless we're talking about materials with an unpaired electron.
We need more information before we speculate
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You've pretty much addressed the crux of the matter. The Chinese are EXTREMELY anally retentive about reputation, especially when it comes to reputation relative to Japan. To say that a Chinese martial arts style is inferior to a Japanese martial arts style is akin to a declaration of war. Not to mention that each individual martial arts form has their own sense of pride....
actually, the term quantum computing was coined LONG ago by using the quantum properties of superposition to create "qubits", which are quantum bits
I highly doubt the article is talking about using electron spin to store data. For every spin up electron, there has to be a spin down electron to counter its spin, unless we're talking about materials with an unpaired electron. We need more information before we speculate