Taiwo Akinwande

Data Protection Advocate & Cybersecurity Enthusiast.
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[Taiwo Akinwande @EngrTexzy]

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[𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐳𝐚 | Network Engineer (Aspiring) @Hamzaonchain]

HOW QUANTUM COMPUTERS WORK

I spent a lot of time last year researching and reading about quantum computers. I was obsessed with the idea of them eventually breaking some of the cryptographic systems that currently secure the internet 😂. It really was an obsession.

So here’s the cat analogy version(I love cats):

Imagine a normal computer as a very strict system of cats in boxes.

Each cat is either:

• inside the box (1)

• outside the box (0)

No confusion. One state at a time. That’s classical computing.

Now quantum computing (Quantum Computing) changes the rulebook.

Instead of one cat being forced to choose inside or outside, a quantum cat can exist in a “blurred state” where it is both inside and outside the box at the same time.

That weird state is called superposition.

So instead of checking one cat at a time, you’re effectively working with a room full of cats that are all in multiple states simultaneously. Not because they’re confused—because the physics allows probability states to overlap.

Now it gets stranger.

Some cats become entangled.

That means: If you check Cat A and it turns out to be “inside the box,” Cat B instantly becomes “outside the box,” even if it’s in another room. They’re linked like a single system with shared rules, not independent objects anymore.

But here’s the catch:

The moment you open the box to check what state a cat is in, the “blur” disappears. Each cat snaps into a definite state: inside or outside.

So quantum computers don’t just “try everything at once” in a brute-force way. Instead, they:

• let all possible cat-states evolve together

• reinforce the useful patterns

• cancel the useless ones

• then measure the final outcome

That’s why they’re powerful for specific problems like factoring large numbers or simulating molecules—but not magically better at everything.

So your original obsession wasn’t wrong in spirit: Yes, they could threaten some encryption systems in theory.

But practically, it’s less “breaking the internet overnight” and more “a very different kind of computation that’s still extremely hard to control and scale.”

In short:
Classical computers pick one cat per box.
Quantum computers let all the cats misbehave at once… then force them to settle into a useful answer.

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