Tell me about quantum computers. Are they pseudo science?
Tell me about quantum computers. Are they pseudo science?
Dylan Turner
David Cooper
your brian is one
Thomas Ortiz
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Landon Wright
Quantum computers are in the "Maybe it's possible" phase, still 10 to 30 years out, like nuclear fusion.
One working-example of a quantum computer is the double slit quantum eraser experiment:
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He explains how it works from minute 0 to 6, then explains the wave form collapse. The floating point operation would be done IN the cross-temporal wave form collapse.
The Problem is, the hinge that either reads or writes a photon to the photon gun, reads either screen, or flanges the erasure is limited by the speed of light.
And so you would need to stack this 32 units high to perform a single floating point operation. And it would only go about the same speed as a CPU does. At the speed of light.
But the attempt of offloading the FLOP to the wave form collapse in a cross-temporal pre-post realm of subatomic particles is not disproven by math.
So research continues.
Yes 99% of it is bullshitters flim-flamming for coins. But what research isn't?
Hunter Morales
nice post
Luke Evans
Yeah they pretty garbage right now. I have a tech buddy who has a theory that their success may be tied to consciousness but that would bump into the conscious universe theory. he was basing it off of how they inexplicably stop working or some shit like someone stopped believing.
Nathan Mitchell
Also I talked to a guy over beer claiming to do pure research around legit quantum computers, and I felt like I got the real scoop: the general idea is nanotechnology around an atomic mono-layer of heavy metal atoms.
You create a atomic mono-layer lattice of cesium atoms. Think of it like a bug-screen on a porch or super-fine fly-netting.
Your first problem is preventing the cesium atoms from quantum-tunneling to their neighbor slot, so you've got to hold the thing in place such that purtubrations at the atomic scale don't unhinge the entire thing.
You take your cesium mono-layer and arrange them into chip diagrams in almost exactly the same way as here:
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So then you stick your handy-dandy write head on one side of the lattice, you write your subatomic particle spin, say spin-up or spin down. That proceeds down the lattice at the speed of light, (you broke out teeth of the lattice, so that the propagation only occurs along valid lines), and then you put your read head on the other side. In theory a computer would not heat-up, because subatomic particle properties of atoms don't create heat.
And the theory is that a quantum tunnel could be made between two points on the computer board, and so therefore a read and a write could travel from one side of the chip to the other side of the chip, using zero time, and the spooky-action-at-a-distance that Einstein didn't like, but was proven to be possible.
He talks about the read/write head here:
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And so the double-slit quantum erasure experience in my previous post becomes the "Tunnel of faster than light travel" between one side of the CPU and the other side of the CPU. Thus making it possible to perform a calculation in 0.1 nanoseconds rather than a universal speed limit of 1 nanosecond.
Asher Gray
Very good at solving complex problems that are specifically suited for it, horrible at other tasks. So worthless unless you want to solve something on a probabilistic manner and not recieve an answer
Liam Jackson
And this set of problems is very small, reserved mostly for research, development and military.
Xavier Lewis
Yes, people usually don't understand Qcomputers are not aimed to replace classic computers, but to skip several classes of compexities for certain specific problems (combinatorics, game theory...)