Well, they’ve about done it. They have almost turned the Internet into a dead zone. I have a blog and a forum located on this site that I use and enjoy getting feed back on, both of which I’ve now had to shut down. No one can create accounts on my forum without me personally approving them and that is becoming a problem due to the number of spammer faggots posting new accounts on the forum daily. They of course can’t create the accounts and can’t get their ill-formed garbage for anyone to see, but none the less, they waste their time as well as mine trying to get the accounts created.
Then, I open my email today and have 80 comments on my blog that I had to go through and delete because another bastard posted his junk on there. This site is not a job for me and I can’t allow it to take up all my time just trying to keep it clean. So now I’ve had to turn off the ability for anyone to post comments to the blog. What fun this has become!!!
I really don’t understand how these people are getting past all the security features such as emailing you authentication codes and pictures you have to describe before you can even create the account, but somehow they are. Hopefully some time soon I’ll find a way to stop them for good and can open things back up, but for now the spammers win. Or rather, they loose. Do they not realize when we all get so tired of this shit that we stop fighting that they loose for good? And who the hell is paying these faggots anyway?
Anyway, I”m a little upset as you can tell. I think we should open up burning at the stake again and throw all these bastards on top of each other and light them up.
I am not going to claim that I know everything there is to know about Quantum Physics or Quantum Computing but then, who can? It would be like making the statement that there is a single person on earth that understands the current IRS tax code here in the United States. There are lots of assumptions and a lot of things stated as proven fact, but in the end, there is very little truly understood.
Take for a moment superposition: This is a word used to try to explain the fact that a particle exists in more than one position at the same moment in time, and that only the measurement of that particle causes it to choose one position over another. For example: In an earlier post I tried to explain the 2 slit experiment in which physicists say that a single electron fired towards 2 slits, travels through both slits at the same time. And that only our measurement (or attempted measurement) causes it to choose a single hole or the other. See my earlier post as to why I think this might be wrong, but for now I want to assume they are correct.
In today’s world of computers, we typically use 8 bits of memory or storage, that is made up of either a 0 or a 1, to represent a single character. This combination of 0’s and 1’s allows us to represent massive amounts of information and processes. Computer programs use this information in order to determine what a user just typed at the computer keyboard, or what is currently displayed on the screen. Now watch this!
Quantum Computing is attempting to use the actual elements to represent this 0 or 1 state by measuring the particles spin or state and using that value to represent information. But as we just stated above, in the world of Quantum Physics, a particle exists in 2 states at once. Physicists use this behavior to state that its now possible to represent an entire character set with only 8 bits. In the old method, you would have 2 states multiplied times 8 positions which yields 255 different combinations. In the Quantum Computing methodology, they claim you’d only need the 8 positions, since all 8 particles are representing all possible combinations at once.
They go on to tell us that it will be possible to have computers that can out think time itself, due to the fact that Einstein’s theory of relativity states that nothing moves faster than light, yet these Quantum Physicists claim that on the single particle level everything does.
Back to the time Computer: So, lets consider for a moment a computer made from particles that are interpreted via the rules of Quantum Physics. What would it tell you? I want to store the word “mouse” in its memory. How would one accomplish this? According to these guys, the computer would require a lot less memory to store the entire word, due to the fact that any 8 bits would be able to handle this job easily where before it would take a lot more using a computer built today. But thinking through the logical use of this computer gets a little crazy. I mean, lets think of today’s computer that could possibly exist in both 1 and 0 at the same time, and only the measurement of one of those particles causes it to Choose… Keyword: Choose… In other words, Quantum Physics states that we can NEVER know the state of a particle until we measure it, and that the measurement itself will change other aspects of its existence. Therefore, we’d have “mouse” that we wanted, but until we measured each bit, what would we get? How would we force the particles to provide the data we wanted when they would obviously, according to their own rules, have to have every possible combination at once. It would appear to me that we might just as easily get the word horse, or dog or cat than to get what we wanted, out of the system.
I’m sure that there are many aspects of these Quantum Computers that I just don’t understand and may never be able to understand. However, I feel that at the moment, we waste a tremendous amount of time and money, in search of magic. Either Quantum Physics is wrong, which is what I lean towards, or Quantum Computing just makes no sense.
Who’s to know? At this point, no computer has been built using this technology and the tests that have been done to show it works have been flimsy at best. Yet years have already been invested and most likely billions of dollars moved towards making the illogical logical… After all, a computer is 100% logic and nothing more…
– glenn hancock