Opening Quantum Computing To the Public

director_mr writes "Tom's Hardware is running a story with an interesting description of a 28-qubit quantum computer that was developed by D-Wave Systems. They intend to open up use of their quantum computer to the public. It is particularly good at pattern recognition, it operates at 10 milliKelvin, and it is shielded to limit electromagnetic interference to one nanotesla in three dimensions across the whole chip. Could this be the first successful commercial quantum computer?"

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Re:D-Wave's Quantum Computing Crackpottery

[Louis Savain]

Honestly, mr. Savain, if your ideas were in fact anything but complete bullshit (and you weren't such a complete asshole when it comes to presenting those ideas) someone might actually take you seriously. You remind me of Gene Ray and his Time Cube, and I don't think I'm the only one.

As I wrote elsewhere, opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one. You forgot to explain why your opinion matters to me. The last time I checked, you don't put food on my table. Neither do D-Wave, David Deutsch, Stephen Hawking and all the other crackpots in the physics community who believe in time travel and quantum computing. LOL. And yet, nothing moves in spacetime.

There is no dynamics within space-time itself: nothing ever moves therein; nothing happens; nothing changes. [...] In particular, one does not think of particles as "moving through" space-time, or as "following along" their world-lines. Rather, particles are just "in" space-time, once and for all, and the world-line represents, all at once the complete life history of the particle.

From "Relativity from A to B" by Dr. Robert Geroch, U. of Chicago

[Spacetime is] Einstein's block universe (in which, too, nothing ever happens, since everything is, four-dimensionally speaking, determined and laid down from the beginning).

Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

David Deutsch (source: NOVA OnLine)

Now who is the crackpot, me (who, like Popper and Geroch, does not accept time travel and insists that nothing can move in spacetime) or David Deutsch? The answer depends on whether you are an ass kisser or you are on the side of truth and honesty.