Imagine a problem with 96 billion potential solutions. To try them all would take a human, well, longer than forever. It would take a regular computer algorithm, checking 1 million possibilities a second, 24 hours.  

It would take a quantum computer less than one second. 

That’s how Inès Montaño introduces the concept of quantum computing to young students and their parents when she travels the country with SparCQS (pronounced “sparks,” short for Sparking Curiosity in Quantum Science). She uses a fun game called The Cat Challenge, where the participants try to match up cats on a 3×3 grid. It’s an illuminating way to demonstrate the potential of quantum computers, which are computers that exploit the principles of quantum science to solve complex problems such as modeling climate change or finding a cure for cancer.

READ the full article here: Sparking an interest in quantum science