How Does Quantum Just Broke Encryption (And Genesis Predicted It) Work?

Quantum computing is like having a super-smart friend who can solve puzzles way faster than anyone else, and it just broke encryption by doing that.

Imagine you have a secret message in a locked box, and the lock is made with a special code. Everyone knows how to unlock it if they know the code, but finding that code usually takes a long time. That’s like encryption, it keeps your messages safe because it takes time for someone else to figure out the code.

Now imagine your super-smart friend can try every possible code at once, like flipping through all the pages of a giant book in one second. That’s what quantum computing does, it uses tiny particles that can be in many places at the same time, making them really fast at solving puzzles.

This means your secret message could be unlocked much faster than expected, breaking the lock, that's how quantum computing broke encryption.

A long time ago, someone (or a group of people) wrote about the future in a book called Genesis. They didn’t know about quantum computers, but they described something like a “great power” or “new way of thinking” that would change everything. That’s kind of like predicting quantum computing, it wasn’t specific, but it hinted at big changes coming!