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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...
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brucecohenpdx commented on
I may be being unduly optimistic ...
I don't think you understand that the term "measurement" has a particular meaning in QM that contradicts what you're saying. By definition a measurement causes the measured quantum state to "collapse" into one of its eigenstates, after which any superposition or entanglement in the original state is lost. If QM is a correct theory (and it's one of the most precisely verified theories in all of physics), there is no way a quantum state can survive measurement....
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Greg. Tingey commented on
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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....
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Greg. Tingey commented on
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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....
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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....
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Greg. Tingey commented on
I may be being unduly optimistic ...
Precisely! Exept the renormalisation and QM?Rel problems are there. Oh dear...
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