Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 14:19:23 10/25/02
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On October 25, 2002 at 16:36:50, Robin Smith wrote: It is nonsense to see postings as: "how fast will my DIEP run on a quantum computer". Let's say i first look forward to run on a 512 processor SGI machine from NWO at world champs in Graz, november 2003, if i can get the system time for the full machine that is... For the coming so many years no chessprogram will have equal power in a single cpu, even if that's a hardware cpu :) But for the speed of computers, if it is true that hardware gets each 2 years about 2 times faster. Then in 2066 we will be capable of getting 10^40 clocks system time. That's quite a lot. But that makes the prediction that a quantum computer seeing 10^100 or similar amounts of things at a glance, has to wait for another 250 years. So that'll be around the year 2300. Get my point? Best regards, Vincent >On October 25, 2002 at 14:42:14, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On October 25, 2002 at 14:14:00, Robin Smith wrote: >> >>>On October 25, 2002 at 13:15:50, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> >>>> can you show me >>>>a picture of a quantum. That's the smallest detail you could show of course. >>> >>>Vincent you are a funny guy. This had me laughing out loud. You were joking, >>>right? >>> >>>Robin >> >>No. >> >>Can you show me a picture of a quantum? >> >>I *can* show you a picture of a real processor. Plenty of them >>around the net. I can't show you the picture of a quantum. >> >>Can you? >> >>The things exist for like 1/1000000000000 of a second. >> >>How do we create a computer from it if we can't make a clear picture of >>a quantum? > >Sorry. I thought you were joking. > >You are right that you can show me a picture of a real processor. But show me a >picture of a "bit", or even of an "electron". You can't. So how can we make >digital computers? As for a quantum computer, I agree they don't yet exists, so >I can't show you a picture, but things that exist only in theory have a nasty >habit of turning into reality at some point. Don't forget that the initial >theory of modern digital computers was done many years before there were actual >computers you could take a picture of. > >And as far as "the things" existing for only 1/1000000000000 of a second (can I >assume "the things" you are talking about is quantum entanglement, the >theoretical basis for quantum computing? If not, what are "the things"?), this >is totally untrue. Have you read anything recently about quantum entanglement >or quantum computing? Theory is advancing by leaps and bounds. It remains to >be seen if engineers will figure out how to do anything useful with it, but I'm >guessing that eventually, yes they will. > >Robin
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