Quantum computers a reality?

[Thor.]

Hello everyone, that's right right we are now in the Quantum Computing era, just think of the possibilities.

 

There is Youtube videos in the link that explains it more.

 

 

http://www.dailytech.com/Google+Uses+Quantum+Computers+to+Optimize+Android+Plots+World+Domination/article33536.htm

 

This explains it in a dumbed down way.

 

 

What would you ask a quantum computer ehh, if you had the time with one.

Edited October 13, 2013 by Thor.

[Vindekarr]

i can personally vouch for this. A university in Australia already has a working Q-Comp motherboard, it operates using full Quantum principles and even has a limited capacity to teleport molecules carrying data directly to other Q-Comps in the lab. Your(well, my) tax dollars at work-absolutely awesome.

[Thor.]

The cool thing is its a Canadian Invention, at least the d wave is. We could be considered a type 2 when it comes to computing now, sense quantum computing is the final frontier when it comes to what is achievable.

 

Its literally bending space time, and universes. Not to mention defies the laws of physics.

And not to mention that they have discovered in the long run string theory is not a theory anymore, but a scientific fact, in which also boggles my mind just thinking about what this means for further understanding the universe. Quantum computing is proof it does exist.

Edited October 13, 2013 by Thor.

[billyro]

I rarely keep up to date with sciency stuff, so tell me, what exactly is this? From what I can deduce, it is some kind of teleporter?

[Vindekarr]

It's a computer, and incredibly advanced and powerful computer. Quantum computers use quantum mechanics to transfer data, and quantum algorithms to process it. To cut a very very complex story short, they are to today's computers what today's computers are to a stone abacus. It's difficult to really describe the degree of advancement-they make binary code look crude. They also have the ability to teleport their data as opposed to sending it via a wired connection. While a fully featured quantum computer is still around 5 years away, the algorithms they use are so sophisticated that even a small one could crack the most complex cryptology on earth in a matter of moments.

 

The downside? you wouldn't be able to code your own OS this time; Quantum data theory is... complex. Really complex. I don't even recognise the symbols in some of these sums-they're not latin, they're not english, they don't register on Google translate and my own translator doesn't even recognise them, fuelling my theory that Quantum Physicists are actually aliens.

[bben46]

I have been working with computers for a very long time - This is magic. Completely out of my understanding of how things work. I see a real life application of all three of Clarkes 3 laws here - from Wikipedia

 

 

Clarke's Three Laws are three "laws" of prediction formulated by the British writer Arthur C. Clarke. They are:

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Not long ago I read an article by a distinguished scientist saying that Quantum computing was just a theory, and we would never see it in our lifetime.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Looks like magic to me.

 

[Werne]

Quantum computers are nothing new, D-Wave Systems made their 128-qubit quantum computer two years ago, at the time it was close in performance to the 73rd fastest supercomputer at the time. Their 512-qubit one was made earlier this year, in May it matched the speed of the tenth fastest supercomputer. Latter one is the QC Thor is referring to.

 

As for my opinion on quantum computers, they impress me and scare me...

 

I'm impressed because a single chip that's about 4x the size of an Intel/AMD x86 CPU can outperform supercomputers. Not to mention that this thing doesn't work on binary code at all, binary is old school, this thing works on qubits (which sounds funny, qubits *giggles*).

 

As to why I'm afraid, this is how stuff like Skynet begins. Binary logic is simple - yes or no. Quantum doesn't play by those rules, it can compute illogically like a brain making it utterly unpredictable and incredibly fast. Processors only become faster and they will reach the power of a human brain eventually, imagine something like a QC achieving self-awareness while being connected to the internet, then you have a potential clusterf***.

 

So if you don't mind, I'll go clean my guns and check my bunker's plating. And yes, I actually have an artillery bunker from WWII beneath my house.

[Thor.]

Here is a creepy example what a Quantum computer is capable of.

 

 

Edited October 13, 2013 by Thor.

[Harbringe]

Almost a decade ago i read an article in physics where they were able to determine that there is a measurable space in electrons that is between when it carries a charge and when it does not . In computing that is basically the space between the 1 and 0 or the on and off of a computer chip. The article described this as a piece of paper that was flat could now be made into a 3 dimensional object. This is what they needed on a quantum level to be able to create a true AI . Don't know how I feel about it , could be the best thing to happen to us or the worst .I wonder if it were to become self aware ,could it be alive . That is one of the criteria of what it is to be alive.

[Thor.]

That would govern it to be alive in a sense.

 

Also Quantum computing is ones and zero's in the same space,

 

like

 

101001

101011 but overlapped. messed up if you think about it.

 

They say that extra 1 was taken from a alternative universe except everything almost identical except that one number or atom.

Edited October 14, 2013 by Thor.