Quantum Leaps May Solve Impossible Problems

NewsFactor Network ^ | October 7, 2002 | Mike Martin

[onedoug]

[onedoug]

Next time you drive somewhere, floor it, and disregard all traffic laws. The probabilities that you won't get there without totalling yourself or someone else derive essentially from the same statistical laws governing quantum events, and hence, the universe.

Who'd 'a thunk that?

[Focault's Pendulum]

I believe Turing was also instrumental in cracking the Enigma Code during WWII.

[Physicist]

I don't know why we seize on such figures and give them exaggerated importance.

Are you familiar with their work?

[Physicist]

The universe is exactly what we "THINK" it is.

Really? Try thinking it to be something different from what it is.

[antidisestablishment]

So, Pi is solved. Good...

[Physicist]

I doubt that it took him more than two years to realize that he received a slap on the wrist on a public indecency charge, and that only then did he decide to commit suicide with a two-year-old incident as his motive.

I agree. The circumstances of his death suggest to me that it was accidental. If it was a suicide, it seems probable that there was another motive. Unfortunately, the "homosexual oppression" angle is too politically useful for it ever to go away.

[Looking for Diogenes]

Kieu believes he has solved both problems. With quantum mechanics, he says he can use a "quantum algorithm" to search through an infinite number of potential solutions to Hilbert's proposed equation and perform the search in a finite period of time. In other words, he can look at every possible solution and be done before dinner!

"We are still trying to figure out where all the quantum calculations are going to take place, since there are not enough atoms in the universe -- about 10 to the power of 80 -- to do the calculations and store the qubits -- individual bits of quantum information," Dr. Gomez explained.

In other words, this solution is speculative.

[GOPJ]

More fury about a time machine, or sound signifying nothing?

"We are still trying to figure out where all the quantum calculations are going to take place, since there are not enough atoms in the universe -- about 10 to the power of 80 -- to do the calculations and store the qubits -- individual bits of quantum information," Dr. Gomez explained. "David Deutsch says the calculations will occur in an infinite number of other universes that exist parallel to ours.

[xp38]

Windtunnel testing with Ann Coulter

[xp38]

Anti Solipsism!!!

[Doctor Stochastic]

I thought he took cyanide, but I could be wrong. It's possible that it was accidental.

[RLK]

I don't know why we seize on such figures and give them exaggerated importance. Are you familiar with their work?

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Regardless of their work I think it's a case of misattributed parallelism.

[cd jones]

oh man, thanks

[cd jones]

beautiful......thanks

[cd jones]

i'd like to take a quantum leap at that !

[steve-b]

The circumstances of his death suggest to me that it was accidental.

Turing accidentally pumped cyanide into an apple and ate it? That notion makes the typical JFK Assassination theory seem rational.

Depression in reaction to the quack hormone "therapy" ordered by the court is more plausible.

[gcruse]

Really? Try thinking it to be something different from what it is.

Remember the book "Crack in the Cosmic Egg"?
This was back in the mystical seventies and the
premise was that our imagining creates reality.
I don't recall how they handled the failure of
alchemy.

[Consort]

Try thinking it to be something different from what it is.

I tried it, and now it is a lot different then it was a secomg ago. With all this tninking going on, it will never stop changing.

[Consort]

Next time you drive somewhere, floor it, and disregard all traffic laws....

No problem, unless you come across obstacles created by counter thoughts. There's a lotta different thunking going on.