[HN Gopher] Quantum Soccer (2009)
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       Quantum Soccer (2009)
        
       Author : nsilvestri
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2024-03-12 17:44 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.gregegan.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.gregegan.net)
        
       | rtkwe wrote:
       | Neat this also shows up in Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge which
       | seems to pull a lot of themes from the short story this is used
       | in.
       | 
       | https://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Complete/Border.html
        
       | gpderetta wrote:
       | Greg Egan of course.
        
       | dzdt wrote:
       | For years I had the idea of making a quantum version of the
       | breakout game. In conception quite similar to this, but in detail
       | I pictured modelling it as a photon in an infinite square well.
       | Start with it very localized as a wave packet. Let the bricks be
       | observations: continually they either exclude the photon-ball or
       | observe it to have location within the brick boundaries (and then
       | very uncertain velocity subsequently by Heisenberg uncertainty).
       | A brick would be removed when that occurs. I never got around to
       | coding though...
        
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