Originally Posted by cowanpp
If I remember correctly, quantum computers have some infinite amount of states because the qubit might be either 0 or 1? I'm not really sure. When I read about all of that stuff it made my head hurt.
You're thinking of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which states that the act of observing something changes it, and that you can only ever know with certainty the direction or position of an atom.
A lot of people confuse this with Shroedinger's Cat, which is a related but different ball of wax.
Niels Bohr put it best when he said "anyone who thinks they understand quantum physics is wrong."