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#Google Has added Quantum Physics To'Minecraft'Video#Minecraft the Lego-style build-your-own-game game has been the canvas for some awesome projects. For just one example: this gigantic scientific graphing calculator. Now Google's Quantum A i. Lab is taking it in an even weirder direction: quantum physics. The team created a modified version of the game called qcraft that lets players explore the fundamentals of the field by playing in#a world based on quantum principles. From a post on#Google+#announcing the game: We talked to our friends at Minecraftedu and Caltech s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter and came up with a fun idea: a Minecraft modpack called qcraft. It lets players experiment with quantum behaviors inside Minecraft s world with new blocks that exhibit quantum entanglement superposition and observer dependency.##Is it a#true#simulacrum of a blocky quantum universe? Ha no. But considering just how strange the field is that probably wouldn't make for a fun game. Instead it's just a way of teaching the basics and Google admits as much:##Of course qcraft isn t a perfect scientific simulation but it s a fun way for players to experience a few parts of quantum mechanics outside of thought experiments or dense textbook examples.##You can download the game here. Google via Polygon

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