Looking for the ultimate party trick to make sure you win this holiday? How about entangled tic tac toe or a kind of two-player sudoku with quantum pseudotelepathy, suggests philipcball
THERE was a time when I could be certain of beating my kids at games. Whether it was chess, cards or my personal favourite,, I could sit down confident in my superior abilities. Sadly, those days are gone. My children are teenagers now, and the occasions when I manage to outwit them are dismayingly rare. But this holiday season, I have cooked up a plan to get my own back.
My kids have the advantage of nimble-minded youth. But I am the only one in the family familiar with quantum physics: a famously strange world where, as this year’s Nobel prizewinners in physics showed, objects can seem to be in instant communication over any distance via a phenomenon called entanglement. I have now discovered a handful of games where my knowledge of quantum theory is going to give me the upper hand. They may be a little more exotic than snakes and ladders.
I will watch my family struggle, before smugly announcing that it is impossible. In the 1960s, mathematicians showed that, while there are solutions …
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