There's a scene in the animated series Futurama that cracks me up every time I think about it. The show's characters are at the horse track of the future, but there's controversy when a race ends very, very closely " so closely that the race officials need a powerful electron microscope to judge the "photo finish." The track loudspeaker eventually announces, "And the winner is ' Number Three, in a quantum finish!" And Professor Farnsworth,