Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 21:14:56 06/17/00
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On June 17, 2000 at 23:50:59, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On June 17, 2000 at 22:19:11, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >> >>On June 17, 2000 at 20:40:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On June 17, 2000 at 17:31:12, Eran wrote: >>> >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>>Please click >>>>http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/16/new.chips.idg/index.html and read >>>>very interesting news about new Williamette chips and molecular and quantum >>>>computers that may happen in the future!! >>>> >>>>I believe molecular and quantum computers will be too tough even for top >>>>grandmasters on earth. Perhaps molecular and quantum computers's strength will >>>>be above 3000 Elo rating! >>>> >>>>What do you think? >>>> >>>>Eran >>> >>>In a few hundred years we will know. >>> >>>:) >> >>But first i want to see a CLEAR picture of what a quantum is. >>Not a theoretical discussion and a long theoretical insight that it's >>likely that quantums exists, but a picture, because how to >>make a computer out of particles you don't know how they look >>like? > >I think quantum computers use electrons just like in ordinary computers. They >just use them in a different way. Nobody really knows what an electron looks >like, but that does not keep us from building ordinary computers. Actually, there are about half a dozen types of quantum computers under consideration. Some are based on the use of electrons, while others aren't. For more details: http://www.techreview.com/articles/may00/waldrop.htm
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