Quantum Computing: A view from the enemy camp

SIGFPE writes "There seems to be an unthinking acceptance by many people that quantum computers are now on their unstoppable way up and before too long we'll be cracking RSA and simulating protein folding on complex quantum computers. However there is another point of view that considers quantum computers to be as difficult to make as perpetual motion machines - and for much the same reason: entropy. As an antidote to all the successes that have been reported on /. here is a just published and highly readable preprint by a sceptical mathematical physicist."

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looking sideways

[Perdo]

If it is possible for quantum computers to look sideways into parallel universes to perform their calculations and evolution dictates that any lifeform that does not take full advantage of its enviroment will not survive to procreate then humans must have a latent ability to percieve parallel worlds too.

If it is possible to utilize parallel processing then life would have had to evolve the ability to take advantage of that.

Since we don't all have ESP then quantum computers are bullshit.

And no, we don't want to hear about the dog in the UK that knows when its owner has made the decision to come home.