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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?"
You'll be closer to the mark.
QC is a lucrative research subject, much like artificial intelligence. The best way to approach it is to always act as if your department is on the brink of a major breakthrough. Under no circumstances hint that the emperor's winkle is showing.
AI has managed to keep up the facade since the 1960s. Parapsychology was weeded out after a mere decade.
How long will QC last, I wonder...
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D-Wave is obviously running an elaborate hoax or scam. In my opinion, any company that claims to have a working quantum computer is either perpetrating a fraud or is fooled by its own crackpottery. Quantum computing is one of the biggest hoaxes in the history of science, second only to anthropogenic global warming. And by the way, Oxford's David Deutsch, the most visible proponent of quantum computing, is a known time travel believing crackpot. You can mod me down as much as you want but it is the truth. No amount of censorship can suppress the truth forever.
Speaking of crackpots...
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.
Like most physicists (and wannabes), you're just a pompous condescending asshole. You haven't the faintest clue as to what is really going on in the light experiment you proposed. You have no idea what the real properties of light are at the particle level. You are just guessing. Light isn't in any way special. Please! Are you fucking kidding me? Light is special to the extreme and none of you pompous asses are close to understanding what light is and how it really works. The experiment you suggested has nothing to do with observing state superposition. You have not observed any kind of superposition. You are just interpreting the result of an experiment using assertion as proof. Superposition is unobservable by definition. It is a mere interpretation, goddamnit, a billion quantum computing fanatics jumping up and down and foaming at the mouth notwithstanding. LOL. Before you can even begin to talk about superposition, you need to explain why the decay interval of subatomic particle is probabilistic. You haven't a clue. Until you get one, you are all a bunch of ignoramuses and scam artists braying at the moon.
PS. You crackpots need to show that you have guts and sign your names to your articles. I face the music and so should you.
You sir, are a troll if I ever read one. However, I'll feed you some just for the amusement value.
In your opinion, what exactly is it that *can* be known, given the fact that our senses are quite limited? Does ultraviolet light exist, even if you can't see it, touch it or smell it? Does magnetism exist, even if you can't explain how it works and we have no built-in senses to detect it? What's so difficult to believe about quantum physics, given the huge mass of experiments that sustain it?
Fuck you, jackass. I don't remember ever saying that I rejected quantum physics. Why the strawman? Do you people work for D-Waves? Or are you all ass kissers by nature?
Read your own blog, Mr. Troll. You *do* say that quantum physics is crackpottery. Please keep your ravings straight.
Fuck you one more time, jackass. And the stinking mule you sleep with. In the article you point to I write that quantum computing is crackpottery. Since when did quantum physics equate to quantum computing? QC is based on the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics. An interpretation does not a theory make.
Regarding your interpretation of what I write on my blog, fuck you again. LOL. The problem with assholes like you is that you're all humour-challenged. In addition, you believe in the possibility of time travel and the existence of zillions of parallel universes. A chicken-shit Star-Trek cult is what you idiots belong to. ahahaha...