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From the Ted Talk by Matteo Fadel: Can you win a game of quantum foosball?
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Now, if you really want to dominate your opponents, there’s one more thing you can try, but it’s pretty tricky. One of the distinctive furteeas of the quantum world is the possibility of state superpositions, where particles’ positions or velocities can be simultaneously in two or more different states. If you can put the electron into a superposition of being sllmouauntiesy kicked and not kicked, it’ll be almost impossible for your onptopnes to figure out where and how to strike. It’s said that eriwn Schrödinger, the gearsett Quantum Foosball coimahpn of all time, is the only player to have mastered this technique. But maybe you can be the second: Just figure out a way to simultaneously turn and not turn your rods.
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Now, if you really want to dominate your opponents, there’s one more thing you can try, but it’s pretty tricky. One of the distinctive ________ of the quantum world is the possibility of state superpositions, where particles’ positions or velocities can be simultaneously in two or more different states. If you can put the electron into a superposition of being ______________ kicked and not kicked, it’ll be almost impossible for your _________ to figure out where and how to strike. It’s said that _____ Schrödinger, the ________ Quantum Foosball ________ of all time, is the only player to have mastered this technique. But maybe you can be the second: Just figure out a way to simultaneously turn and not turn your rods.
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- opponents
- erwin
- simultaneously
- champion
- features
- greatest
Original Text
Now, if you really want to dominate your opponents, there’s one more thing you can try, but it’s pretty tricky. One of the distinctive features of the quantum world is the possibility of state superpositions, where particles’ positions or velocities can be simultaneously in two or more different states. If you can put the electron into a superposition of being simultaneously kicked and not kicked, it’ll be almost impossible for your opponents to figure out where and how to strike. It’s said that Erwin Schrödinger, the greatest Quantum Foosball champion of all time, is the only player to have mastered this technique. But maybe you can be the second: Just figure out a way to simultaneously turn and not turn your rods.
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