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On the Quantinuum...

Posted January 21, 2002 3:29 PM.

From a typo made in an AIM message with Matt Jones that mispelled 'quantum' as 'quantuum' we came up with a concept called the 'quantinuum' - a contraction of quantum and continuum. I thought up a definition on the spot for a laugh, "a continuum of uncollapsed possibility". So then I did a search on Google, only to discover that it's a word mentioned in several places on the web already - particularly in an article called Holic Principle and the relations between Physics data. As a super-intelligent Austin Powers might say, "Quantum topological invariance, baby!"

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