Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140103:19:36:00
Are part of a classified $80 million research program based in college park, maryland. joining me now is "washington post" database editor steven rich. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> what is it exactly and how it is different from what we have in use today? >> it's a complicated subject but it makes use of quantum mechanical theory been around in the physics world 100 years. in a normal computer that uses ones and zeros, the quantum computer uses bits that are both one and zero at the same time which allows it to be faster than even today's most powerful super compute...