$100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 4, 2012 @04:38AM from the simultaneously-yes-and-no dept.

mikejuk writes "Quantum computing is currently a major area of research — but is this all a waste of effort? Now Scott Aaronson, a well-known MIT computer scientist, has offered a prize of $100,000 for any proof that quantum computers are impossible: 'I'm now offering a US$100,000 award for a demonstration, convincing to me, that scalable quantum computing is impossible in the physical world.' Notice the two important conditions — 'physical world' and 'scalable.' The proof doesn't have to rule out tiny 'toy' quantum computers, only those that could do any useful work."

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A gazillion dollar prize by countertrolling · 2012-02-04 04:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Prove there is a god

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1. Re:A gazillion dollar prize by dmbasso · 2012-02-04 04:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  You must read the holy book believing, and you will feel it is the word of god! The rapes? The commands to murder? Nah, that are only metaphors, when you read it you will fell the true message of love, and therefore it can only be "His" writings.
  Done, now give me my gazillion dollars please.
  
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