[NTLUG:Discuss] [WTLUG:discuss] Quantum Computer and linux (fwd)

[RDF]

Hmmm, are you talking about manipulating electrons at the subatomic level?
No one has ever seen an atom let alone catch an electron. According to
quantum physics theory, esp. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principal and
Schrodinger's statisical mechanical method (which only calculates the
probability of a particle discharge) you cannot know the position and the
momentum of a subatomic particle at the same time and the more information
you have about one the less information you have about the other. Neil's
Bohr stated "The atom is not a thing, it is a process." I would say they
have some formiable science to discover and then manipulate....

rdf

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Jenkins <bjenkins at iadfw.net>
To: discuss at ntlug.org <discuss at ntlug.org>
Date: Saturday, October 23, 1999 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] [WTLUG:discuss] Quantum Computer and linux
(fwd)


>On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:38:10 -0500 (CDT)  Chad Foreman wrote:
>
>: A whole new futuristic platform is developing for Linux.
>:
>: In a newsletter I get on quantum physics applications, the Unitel company
>: has announced the prototype commercial production of a quantum computer,
>: based on the manipulation subatomic particle charges.  This is related to
>: developments for a biological medium for computer circuits.
>:
>: They have contracted with the University of Illinois at Chicago to build
>: this, and the quantum logic instruction set will be developed by a UCLA
prof
>: who is also an engineer in Unitel.  Unitel lab tests have already been
done
>: on the theoretical model.
>:
>: They announce that initially they "will use a Linux port since the Linux
OS
>: is open source and easily transferred to different computing systems.
Since
>: the Linux kernel is not hardware specific, it will fit Unitel's quantum
>: computer like a glove."
>
>The little bit I read about quantum computers seemed to say that
>information is signified by varying states of the electrons in the
>atoms, which are more than two.  I understood the concept to be
>non-binary, which would seem to indicate an entirely new operating
>system.  Infact, it would seem to require an entirely new machine
>language.
>
>Do I have it all wrong?
>
>Bill Jenkins
>bjenkins at iadfw.net
>
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