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quantum

[kwon-tuhm] / ˈkwɒn təm /
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quantity
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Will one country gain such significant tech advantages from breakthroughs in superintelligence or quantum computing that it can overturn the economic and military balance of power—and if so, which one?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

BofA Securities initiates coverage on IonQ at Buy, saying the company’s recent acquisitions are shaping it into a diversified play on quantum technology.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The researchers expect that as future experiments become larger and more complicated, however, quantum computers will eventually be able to solve versions of these problems that classical machines cannot handle.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

In May, tiny, unprofitable Astrotech, which touts “Moon-based semiconductor and quantum computing applications,” soared as much as 2,600% on 9,000 times its typical trading volume.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Like, the smaller things get, the crazier science becomes. When you start talking about p-branes and quantum immortality and entanglement...Well, it’s just cool is all.”

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

This process excites the organic molecules, which then release energy as light quanta.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

The analysis confirmed that both the input and output of the experiment were single quanta of energy.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2023

General relativity does not contain any notion of quanta; a quantum theory of gravity is an ambition that remains unfinished today.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2023

“He responded, rather vaguely, with some small notions about highspeed rotating mirrors, chopping the tails off quanta and other single-shot ideas,” Tuve would recall.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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