On 1 May 2007 23:05:11 -0700, "
wrote:

D-Wave Inc. (I read in the various news articles on the net)
has demonstrated a quantum computer (and for sceptics, there are
several technical articles in little-known journals, so says the web)
and is planning to give free accounts to program a quantum computer.

D-Wave's web-site is http://www.dwavesys.com

This should be great for PhD hunters.

Erach

Contact

D-Wave Systems Inc.
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Everyone working on quantum computers is either a fraud or a fool or
both. That includes the folk at D-Wave. Quantum physicists do not
understand why the universe is probabilistic. David Deutsch has his
infinite parallel universes crap he's been preaching for aeons while
most others admit that they have no clue. Deutsch is a full blown
crackpot of the worse kind in my book. His crap is no better than the
time travel, paranormal crap of that other crackpot, Jack Safarti.
Come to think of it, Deutsch believes in the possibility of time
travel as well. How any of these lunatics get to be taken seriously by
the mainstream physics community is a mystery.

The truth is that the universe is probabilistic because it is discrete
and there is only one fundamental discrete interval (i.e., a universal
event counter). Since nature cannot calculate precise intervals for
interactions, it is forced to use the only alternative: probability.
In other words, all interactions have the same fundamental duration
but the timing of interactions is probabilistic. BTW, this is the
reason for the probabilistic decay of subatomic particles. What's
important is that, in the end, all conservation laws are obeyed.

Telling it like I see it.

Louis Savain

Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm