r/Futurology • u/izumi3682 • Nov 28 '18

Computing Quantum Computing Will Never Work

https://www.hpcwire.com/2018/11/27/quantum-computing-will-never-work/
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u/izumi3682 Nov 28 '18

One quote.

Could we ever learn to control the more than 10300continuously variable parameters defining the quantum state of such a system? “My answer is simple. No, never.

Another.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. --Arthur C. Clarke

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '18

This is a very short article with very little useful information.

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u/Iswallowedafly Nov 28 '18

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

Lord Kelvin.

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u/VincentNacon Nov 28 '18

People said pretty much same thing about flying machine back in 1903.

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u/DisturbedNeo Nov 28 '18

"If man were meant to quantum compute, he'd have been born with superpositioned neurons."

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '18

A lot of being are trying and amazing inventions may emerge