A lot of things have happened in my lifetime that seemed like engineering impossibilities, including things that were deemed impossible. On the flip side, things that we thought would take only 5 years turned out to be a lot harder than we thought. My gut feel is that we will eventually see economically viable quantum computers but that there will be false starts along the path (pun intended.)
There are certainly hard limits according to current theory, but the Planck length is minuscule; we've got a lot of room before we run into it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Phil Smith III <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 2:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CBS's "60 Minutes": Quantum Computing All the big-brain mathematicians/cryptographers I know are extremely skeptical about quantum computing ever becoming a reality. The problems of stability are also exponential, and so getting from a few dozen/hundred qbits to something big enough to be reasonable may be essentially impossible. Of course some breakthrough could happen; so could room-temperature superconductors, anti-gravity, or a cure for cancer. Tomorrow-or never. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
