Discussion»Questions»Outside the Mug» Suppose you were cowboy herding 100 cows into a corral but they always managed to escape before you got the gate closed. What would you do?
The scenario kind of illustrates one of the problems scientists are having with building a quantum computer; they can get the information 'corralled' but it always escapes (decoheres) before the electronic gates can be closed in order to lock in the information.