Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:34:33 10/26/02
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On October 25, 2002 at 17:44:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On October 25, 2002 at 17:32:19, Lieven Clarisse wrote: > >Yes i know, therefore the year 2300 looks to me like a good >date. By then we all are dead anyway. I recall people saying the _same_ thing about optical computing 20 years ago. Times do change, however... > >I remember how i recently heard Jaap v/d Herik talking at >the radio about computers and law: "computers will be >able to apply the rules of law by the year 2100". > >Yes Jaap is right! > >But we can never verify his statements of course :) > >>On October 25, 2002 at 17:19:23, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>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. >>> >> >>You know why they call it a quantum computer? Because it doesnt work like >>a classical computer. Essentialy processes can be handled in parallel on a >>*single* processor. So pleeeaaase don't invoke More's law, or whatever they call >>it in predicting anything about a qc. >>http://www.i-sis.org.uk/QuantumComputing.php >> >>quantum computing is NOT just classical computing in miniature, it is a whole >>different way of dealing with things... >> >>>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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