Re: Quantum computer using using artificial atoms.

jstevh_at_msn.com
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: 26 Feb 2005 08:06:47 -0800

cesarbremer@raseac.com.br wrote:
> The guys at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and
> University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) allowed the
construction
> of logic gates in a quantum computer, creating qubits from
> superconducting circuit elements called Josephson junctions.

Sorry to horn in a bit, but I think there's an important point to be
made that quantum ideas have to do with *mechanical* factoring.

Yeah, I know, it's quantum, and all kind of interesting physics
associated with what is to many a mystical word, but I have a B.Sc. in
physics, and I know that you're just talking about specialized
mechanical devices when you talk about quantum computing.

So if there's a mechanical way, then there must be a purely
mathematicized way.

That is, the quantum world is a world that follows rules--mathematical
rules.

And if quantum devices--mechanical devices--can do something, then the
rules can be abstracted out, just like has been done in other areas.

Like you can use an abacus, or you can use algebra.

I think that surrogate factoring is just a first step in that direction
of abstracting out those mathematical rules, which allow you to build
fully mathematical systems for factoring, or anything else a quantum
computer can do.

You see, it's about ideas. The ideas are what's important, not
necessarily the specifics of the implementation.

If quantum computers can work, then there are algorithms that can do
the same thing, which can be implemented on a general purpose thinking
device--a computer--to do the same thing.

It has occurred to me that given Shor's algorithm there has to be a
fully mathematicized version of it.

Read your history. There have been other mechanical factoring ideas.

Many of you see "quantum" and reason goes out the window and you think
it's voodoo or something else magical.

It's just a word. Get over it, and use your noodle.

What a quantum computer can do, a gp computer with the appropriate
algorithms can do.

James Harris

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