But once you understand it, and its vast processing power, you'll understand that this new Digital Age we're living in has barely scratched the surface of the computer potential.

Simply put, today's computers rely on electrons — electricity — flying around on circuits to deliver information in "bits," or yes/no, 1/0 chunks.

Quantum computing relies on natural properties of the tiny subatomic particles that make up everything in the universe to do number-crunching at magnitudes far greater than a machine using bits ever could.