Quantum Computer

[heinz]

Anyone interested in teaming up to build a Quantum Computer?
We need lasers, polarizers, beam splitters and photon multipliers.
Java or .NET? More like Turing Machine algorithms.
http://www.ronsit.co.uk

Any interest in QM let me know.

[DimPrawn]

No. Next.

I am interested in anything that ends up leading to £1K / day contracts however.

[xoggoth]

From vague memory about them when the idea first surfaced, I thought that quantum computers would be made of coffee.

[Rymez2K]

Anyone interested in teaming up to build a Quantum Computer?
We need lasers, polarizers, beam splitters and photon multipliers.
Java or .NET? More like Turing Machine algorithms.
http://www.ronsit.co.uk

Any interest in QM let me know.

You are turing and I claim my £4.99

Also some of those images on that website are plain odd!!

[Churchill]

Anyone interested in teaming up to build a Quantum Computer?
We need lasers, polarizers, beam splitters and photon multipliers.
Java or .NET? More like Turing Machine algorithms.
http://www.ronsit.co.uk

Any interest in QM let me know.

Threaded has 3, do you want to buy one?

[heinz]

Quantum Physics

Sorry, I did not realize IT contractors are like zoo animals,
and know nothing about Quantum Physics.
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[DimPrawn]

Sorry, I did not realize IT contractors are like zoo animals,
and know nothing about Quantum Physics.
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It's not that I know nothing about it, I just can't see many contracts on jobserve for quantum computers.

[xoggoth]

There you are, I was right

You can make them out of lager too. If you want to make a vodka quantum computer count me in.

PS I think I would take New Scientist above some stuff on that link you quoted.

1) A Russian experiment (rather cruel one albeit) separated a rabbit mother from its new born by taking the mother deep under the sea in a submarine. The new born were killed on the surface and the mother reacted even though she was separated form the offspring. A particle exchange could explain this. The particle may be in the quantum entangled arena or at least outside or 'beneath' ordinary space-time.

[heinz]

Quantum Computers

OK, OK sarcasm is the lowest form of wit - get back to your open-plan desk and pretend to work!
But our brains/DNA are probably quantum computers as well. Don't forget that in a QC a, say, ball (nucleus) can have clockwise spin and anticlockwise spin at the same time - nutty? Well Quantum Mechanics is nutty then, but its hugely more powerful than ordinary computers. Could easily break prime number encryption codes (that would need an ordinary computer working 24 hours a day, 50 years to calculate etc)

[TimberWolf]

But our brains/DNA are probably quantum computers as well.

Personally I doubt it, and Penrose’s views on quantum consciousness are controversial to say the least, and nuts IMO. Do you know of (I believe there isn't) a single example of something that a human brain can calculate that a Turing machine couldn’t? The human brain has a huge advantage over current computer technology with its massive parallel processing ability, but of course this isn’t quantum computing.

Could easily break prime number encryption codes (that would need an ordinary computer working 24 hours a day, 50 years to calculate etc)

Yes, but encryption needn’t use factoring. Other algorithms are available that are thought to be as difficult to crack with quantum computers as with classical ones, and its not yet known for sure whether either classical or quantum computers could yet crack NP complete problems in polynomial time.