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dMw Chit Chat => The Beer Bar => Technology Section => Topic started by: TeaLeaf on February 24, 2006, 04:40:26 PM

Title: Does Your PC Work When Not Working?
Post by: TeaLeaf on February 24, 2006, 04:40:26 PM
This one (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/23/quantum_computing/) does!

Nice pussy.............

TL.
Title: Does Your PC Work When Not Working?
Post by: Vincentvega on February 24, 2006, 05:15:00 PM
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Title: Does Your PC Work When Not Working?
Post by: Doorman on February 24, 2006, 06:48:51 PM
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Title: Does Your PC Work When Not Working?
Post by: Dingo on February 24, 2006, 09:22:22 PM
Ah, of course, the old chained Zeno' effect, how ludicrously simple!  :tumbleweed:
Title: Does Your PC Work When Not Working?
Post by: Swoop on February 25, 2006, 06:10:04 PM
actually i have had my computer running like that for quite some time now... hrmph ;) hehe

Sounds pretty amazingly cool... reminds me of the hitchhikers guide.
Were they build the big amazing computer and just after they turn it on it gets all the way to (i think) realising it's own existense before anybody could turn it off hehe :D
Title: Does Your PC Work When Not Working?
Post by: A Twig on February 26, 2006, 03:10:40 AM
But the whole point of the Schrodinger's cat thing is that you simply cant tell what state the cat is in. How can you run a calculation based on not knowing the outcome of a binary state? Surely you would just have infinite variables? It would be like binary 0.5 wouldn't it?
Title: Does Your PC Work When Not Working?
Post by: Blunt on February 26, 2006, 09:02:36 AM
QuoteOriginally posted by A Twig@Feb 26 2006, 03:10 AM
But the whole point of the Schrodinger's cat thing is that you simply cant tell what state the cat is in. How can you run a calculation based on not knowing the outcome of a binary state? Surely you would just have infinite variables? It would be like binary 0.5 wouldn't it?
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did you worry about this till 3 AM....? :blink:

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Title: Does Your PC Work When Not Working?
Post by: Hippy on February 26, 2006, 11:43:29 AM
QuoteThrough clever use of beam splitters and both constructive and destructive interference, the researchers can put each photon in a superposition of taking two paths. Although a photon can occupy multiple places simultaneously, it can only make an actual appearance at one location. Its presence defines its path, and that can, in a very strange way, negate the need for the search algorithm to run.


Im glad they FINALLY listened to me.
Title: Does Your PC Work When Not Working?
Post by: A Twig on February 26, 2006, 12:42:59 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Blunt@Feb 26 2006, 09:02 AM
did you worry about this till 3 AM....? :blink:

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Shhhhhh  :blush:
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