qCraft – Minecraft rocks Quantum Rules
This is great: Spyridon Michalakis, from Caltech, received a few months ago an email from Google’s Creative Lab Executive Producer (nice job title btw), asking if he can help them to design a mod for Minecraft to get kids excited about quantum mechanics and quantum computing. Yep. You read it correctly. And even better: The mod launched three days ago.
About qCraft:
qCraft is a mod that brings the principles of quantum physics to the world of Minecraft.
We’ve done our best to create something that we hope will be fun to experiment, build and play with while also introducing players to the fascinating and (in the context of the macro-world we inhabit) counterintuitive way that quantum entities interact.
qCraft is not a simulation of quantum physics (this is v1 after all) but it does provide ‘analogies’ that attempt to show how quantum behaviors are different from everyday experience.
In addition to individual players, we hope that parents and educators who want to introduce quantum physics concepts to curious kids will find it useful.
qCraft is freely available for download and use by any licensed Minecraft or MinecraftEdu user.
Oh… and If you have ideas for things we should add (and we really, really hope you do), please share them with us in theforums.
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