Schrodinger's Mouboo !?

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ethel the aardvark
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Schrodinger's Mouboo !?

Post by ethel the aardvark »

When I go to the mouboo lying down, it's dead, because I killed it. But when another player next to me sees the mouboo, it's alive (just).

So does this mean that it's both alive and dead at the same time?

How does the server keep track of this anomaly in the continuum?
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Re: Schrodinger's Mouboo !?

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That's a really good question. You see, we have some ions confined and suspended in free space using electromagnetic fields. Qubits are stored in stable electronic states of each ion, and quantum information can be processed and transferred through the collective quantized motion of the ions in the trap (interacting through the Coulomb force). Lasers are applied to induce coupling between the qubit states (for single qubit operations) or coupling between the internal qubit states and the external motional states (for entanglement between qubits). Well, we could save the state if the mouboo is dead or alive in a character-specific variable, but quantum computing just makes it so much easier.

MIT, NSA and NASA asked us if we could lend them our ions for solving a few NP-complete problems which are bugging them for ages, but we can not afford the mouboo quest to be offline for so long.
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Re: Schrodinger's Mouboo !?

Post by Jumpy »

Maybe we could think in that direction too as it seems there could be a pshychological effects on tmw players and maybe Mouboo.
this could even affecvt Sagatha and have hudge consequences on magic developement in tmw

for more info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28novel%29

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