what do you people think of quantum computers,,..for people who are not in the know i'll try and explain the little i know normal computers read information using binary 1[on] or 0[off] and from this you can pretty much tell the computer anything by combinations of 1's and 0's......with quantum computers you can have 3 options 1,0 and both[i know this is weird] but quantum physics has shown that a particle or atom ,whayever it is they use to physically represent 1 or 0 can be both 1 and 0 at the samr time meaning that a quantum computer could be much much more powerful,like millions of times more powerful ....now they have actually made one of these computers though it is very early days but it is certainly interesting stuff......if i have got anything wrong please correct me ,im no expert
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Kalisnoir
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Here's the article that I first heard it from last night
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/19/uk-research-team-brings-quantum-computing-closer-than-ever-or/
And until they can make GPU's up to the performance level of the computer it self, then it will be better, but not as much as you'd hope. However it is possible to use CPU to do the same job as a GPU, and with it being so much more efficient, possibly gaming would take a giant leap. Not me, nor anyone else will truly be able to tell you what it will be like though, until the day they are created.
Take note of whats at the end of the article though, just like computer hardware now, you wont see the sight of these things commercially for a while after release. Take super-computers as a good example
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/19/uk-research-team-brings-quantum-computing-closer-than-ever-or/
And until they can make GPU's up to the performance level of the computer it self, then it will be better, but not as much as you'd hope. However it is possible to use CPU to do the same job as a GPU, and with it being so much more efficient, possibly gaming would take a giant leap. Not me, nor anyone else will truly be able to tell you what it will be like though, until the day they are created.
Take note of whats at the end of the article though, just like computer hardware now, you wont see the sight of these things commercially for a while after release. Take super-computers as a good example
Kalisnoir
Super Star
So in theory, everything to do with a computer I guess.
Here is a link to satisfy everyones taste buds;
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/quantum-computer.htm
crawlerbasher
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I've watched a documentary about Atoms and one of the thing was about Quantum physics and there mentioned that one day computers will run using quantum mechanics and also on photons rather than electron.
As photons are much faster than electrons.
To be honest when it comes to stuff like this I'm a geek.
I don't pretend to understand it, but I do find it very fascinating.
There was this one quait which I realy like.
As photons are much faster than electrons.
To be honest when it comes to stuff like this I'm a geek.
I don't pretend to understand it, but I do find it very fascinating.
There was this one quait which I realy like.
the series was awesome and i loved the film.
so what ever happend to nano technology. nanites mechanicly operating a pc innards?
Its not that they've made one yet, but they think within 5 years that they can, so dont get too excited yet
no...they have made a simple quantum computer....look it up,it can actually do calculations using mental physics
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the computational power of a quantum computer literally would be mind bogglingly more powerful than current computers....[because of the 3 states they can do ,on,off and on-off.-----look it up,,honestly quantum computers are like comparing the abaccus to 1000'000'000 deep blues[that super computer]-no bull....look on net,they cant do one that powerful yet of course but the theory is sound ,...the problem i think for the people working on it is the engineering.The future will sure be interesting-as for games ....if a proper ,big one was made ,with all that computational power, holo decks maybe[thats if they work out how to do holo decks ,technologically[but the computatational prowess would be there.......im no expert.....if you guys are interested ...look it up
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yeah............speaking on quantum physics ,another intriguing fact about quantum mechanics is that stuff can be be in two places at the same time,[i know ,this is weird,].....at test was done,i think with photons and the result of the experiment was that they proved that the protons,photons ,whatever HAD to have been in 2 places simultaneously........this is a fact ....look
it up......this fact now beggs the question that if those particles can be in 2 places at the same time then maybe parallel univereses exist........honestly quantum physics is fascinating and whoeveer said that quote before is dead on the money 'if you thiunk you understand quantum mechanics then you don't'
it up......this fact now beggs the question that if those particles can be in 2 places at the same time then maybe parallel univereses exist........honestly quantum physics is fascinating and whoeveer said that quote before is dead on the money 'if you thiunk you understand quantum mechanics then you don't'
yeah,times are changing,the leap from current computational technology to quantum computing will be a big milstone in history,it will change a lot of things ,simply because of the massive computational prowess.....this souns weird but the people working on this say taht the computational power would be near infinite[i know what your thinking but look it up,]quantum physics is a strange subject ,when you go down to the smallest lvels ,strang things happen like particles being in 2 places at once and if you do sommting to one particle in one place the other particle reacts in the same way,im saying all this to try and demonstrate thatmajor weird thingg ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN FOUND TO OCCUR and considering these things ,a computer with near infinite computationnal power is believable........go i go on,soz