Have you ever pondered the peculiar dance of quantum particles? Imagine a laser beam interacting with a wall pierced by two holes, a classic setup in the world of physics known as the double slit experiment. But what if we replace the laser with cats? The results might surprise you, and even challenge our understanding of reality.
The goal of encryption is to scramble data so thoroughly that only the intended recipient can decode it. At the heart of virtually all private internet communication lies a mathematical phenomenon: the difficulty of factoring large numbers using conventional computers. But what if a quantum computer could effortlessly crack this code? Enter Shor's algorithm.