Did you know plants use quantum mechanics every day? That quantum computers can hack the encryption used in online commerce? Or that a ‘quantum internet’ could someday teleport your emails? MIT’s Seth Lloyd discusses those and other quantum mysteries in this episode of “Ask a Quantum Mechanic.”
Segment Guests
Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloyd is a professor of quantum mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Programming the Universe (Knopf, 2006) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Meet the Producer
About Christopher Intagliata
@cintagliataChristopher Intagliata was Science Friday’s senior producer. He once served as a prop in an optical illusion and speaks passable Ira Flatowese.