{"id":27087,"date":"2013-10-21T07:25:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=27087"},"modified":"2013-10-21T07:25:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:25:08","slug":"google-makes-minecraft-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/10\/21\/google-makes-minecraft-mod\/","title":{"rendered":"Google makes a Minecraft mod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"qCraft: Quantum Physics Meets Minecraft\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nD-iVXglyTQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/googleresearch.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/launching-quantum-artificial.html\">Google Quantum A.I. Lab Team<\/a>, a deep-thought group that explores quantum computing, has made a mind-bending mod for Minecraft. <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+QuantumAILab\/posts\/grMbaaDGChH\">qCraft<\/a> adds blocks that exhibit quantum entanglement, superposition, and observer dependency. Huh? What? I&#8217;ll be honest, the video above explains nothing for me, but the Google Quantum A.I. Lab folks say they worked with MinecraftEdu and Caltech&#8217;s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter to make a fun, engaging way to teach quantum physics concepts to kids.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We built the Quantum A.I. Lab to explore the potential of quantum computing, and figure out what questions we should be asking. One question is clear: Where will future quantum computer scientists come from? <\/p>\n<p>Our best guess: Minecraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looking back on some of the incredible Minecraft creations I&#8217;ve seen over the years, I think these Google people may be on to something. You can download the mod at the <a href=\"http:\/\/qcraft.org\/downloads\/\">qCraft site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Google Quantum A.I. Lab Team, a deep-thought group that explores quantum computing, has made a mind-bending mod for Minecraft. qCraft adds blocks that exhibit quantum entanglement, superposition, and observer dependency. Huh? What? I&#8217;ll be honest, the video above explains nothing for me, but the Google Quantum A.I. Lab folks say they worked with MinecraftEdu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-27087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-minecraft"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google makes a Minecraft mod - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/10\/21\/google-makes-minecraft-mod\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google makes a Minecraft mod - Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Google Quantum A.I. 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