I am always impressed by this stuff. But I have a feeling that economic rationalism has killed off a lot of pure scientific research which could zoom ahead with these computational capabilities. I want the fusion power plant!

- sheesh!

not another one..!!?

The universe size to 1 X 300 atoms, now that's a die shrink.

The more I read about stuff like this, the more I think there must be some kind of ceiling as to how much computing can actually be done. I mean, all the atoms in the universe? What next then? A computer so powerful it causes rips in the fabric of space-time?

Quantum computers are not even close to what we consider a computer. They only do a couple of things really well, like factoring large numbers and some traveling salesmen routing problems. THAT'S IT. Nothing else.
The truly eerie thing is that these calculations are done simultaneously through the multiverse. Each calculation is done in another instance of our universe but the results show up at the end here at OUR instance. Since there is an infinite number of instances of our universe in the multiverse, an infinite number of calculations can be done instantly if we have enough quantum bits to use.

Freaky.

alphanumeric said:

I heard that DR Gordon Freeman is going to oversee the project.