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Quantum Soccer (2009)

by nsilvestri on 3/12/24, 5:44 PM with 4 comments

  • by dzdt on 3/12/24, 10:25 PM

    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...
  • by rtkwe on 3/12/24, 7:09 PM

    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

  • by octernion on 3/13/24, 3:46 AM

    greg egan is a f'in G. what a boss.
  • by gpderetta on 3/12/24, 7:45 PM

    Greg Egan of course.