Oedipus explains the riddle of the Sphinx, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, c. 1805. Oedipus (US /Ëidáµ»pÉs/ or /ËÉdáµ»pÉs/ or UK /ËiËdáµ»pÉs/; Ancient Greek: Î¿á¼°Î´Î¯ÏÎ¿ÏÏ OidÃ­pous meaning swollen foot) was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.
The quantum computing technology developed by D-Wave gets ongoing scientific debate, but it's also getting money, $28 million last week, bringing its total funding to about $150 million. This Canadian company was started 15 years ago and is one of the most tenacious and longest-running tech start-ups around.
Quantum mechanics (QM -- also known as quantum physics, or quantum theory) is a branch of physics which deals with physical phenomena at nanoscopic scales where the action is on the order of the Planck constant. It departs from classical mechanics primarily at the quantum realm of atomic and subatomic length scales.