Greg Egan is the coolest scifi author out there (even apart from the loads of short stories free online). He writes java applets too, and this one is genius -- play Quantum Soccer: "In the game of Quantum Soccer, the aim is to shape the wave function of a quantum-mechanical 'ball' so that the probability of it being inside one of the goals rises above a set threshold".
Greg Egan is the coolest scifi author out there (even apart from the loads of short stories free online). He writes java applets too, and this one is genius -- play Quantum Soccer: "In the game of Quantum Soccer, the aim is to shape the wave function of a quantum-mechanical 'ball' so that the probability of it being inside one of the goals rises above a set threshold".