Author: Les Fernandez
Date: 22:17:58 10/25/02
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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. Nothing incredible here since for sometime now we have developed switches that perform in the femtosecond range and these most certainly exist. > >How do we create a computer from it if we can't make a clear picture of >a quantum? No novelty here since Quantum computers have existed for sometime now. In fact just recently I read an article regarding a Quantum computer that I think was 7 qbits in size and solved a factoring problem successfully. Granted this was using only 7 qbits and the number factored was 15 but it was in fact a quantum computer. It appeared in a Science journal I am a member of. I found an excerpt from a similar project IBM did not to long ago which I have pasted here. The reference I was referring to was an article I read in the Science News journal. Notice the date and the phrase quantum computer for those of you who still doubt there existance: <s> "SAN JOSE, Calif., December 19, 2001 - Scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center have performed the world's most complicated quantum-computer calculation to date. They caused a billion-billion custom-designed molecules in a test tube to become a seven-qubit quantum computer that solved a simple version of the mathematical problem at the heart of many of today's data-security cryptographic systems." "The IBM scientists controlled a vial of a billion-billion (1018) of these molecules so they executed Shor's algorithm and correctly identified 3 and 5 as the factors of 15. "Although the answer may appear to be trivial, the unprecedented control required over the seven spins during the calculation made this the most complex quantum computation performed to date," Amer said." Enjoy, Les
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