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• Greg. Tingey commented on I may be being unduly optimistic ...
  Erm, can I remind you that R. Feynman would have nothing to do with "Collapsing the wave-function mysticism"? I agree, that Copenhage is codswallop, but, what is obviously wrong is our interpretation/understanding of QM, not the results. Hence the still unexplained presence, carefully ignored if at all possible, of obvious hidden variable/factors in QM -: as is revealed by the results when you try a slow-drip-of-single-photons-through-a-double-slit ... and see how the rsult appears to change over time as the count builds up....
• Greg. Tingey commented on I may be being unduly optimistic ...
  Yesterday on BBC Radio4 .. 05.45->05.59 interview with Ronald Pearson (a mech Eng) .... Claiming prediction for integration of QM & Relativity, and (without saying so) appearing to resolve the renormalisation question. Unfortunately, IF it is the same Pearson he is also following Crookes loopy mysticism, according to "Google" I really don't know what to make of it, without actual numbers/data/publications....
• Moderator Alan commented on I may be being unduly optimistic ...
  The moment you see someone from that far outside any field attempting to 'sort it all out', your crank radar should be on full alert. It's not absolutely impossible he's got the answer, but it's also not absolutely impossible that I've just won the lottery....
• Greg. Tingey commented on I may be being unduly optimistic ...
  Precisely! Exept the renormalisation and QM?Rel problems are there. Oh dear...
• martinfr62 commented on I may be being unduly optimistic ...
  Dwave have sold a 128 adiabatic quantum computer to Lockhead Martin, and another is in place at USC's supercomputer center in Marina del Rey. http://dwave.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/historic-opening-of-the-worlds-first-quantum-computing-centre/ They have already solved some problems on the 128 qubit processor which do not appear solvable using current compute hardware. The problem I'm most interested in is the solution of binary classifier problem. (Eg is there a picture of grandma in this photo or not, or should the car make a left turn or not). To make these decision you put together a bunch of small simple questions, is that pixel blue, is the pixel...