Re: Principle of Equivalence

2020-07-07 Thread Bruce Kellett
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 4:18 PM Alan Grayson wrote: > How, exactly, is the Principle of Equivalence used by Einstein to develop > GR? TIA, AG > This lecture by Sean Carroll should answer all your questions: URL: https://wp.me/p2WMeM-3vl Bruce -- You received this message because you are

Re: Principle of Equivalence

2020-07-07 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 8:50:50 PM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 8:05:28 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 4:18 PM Alan Grayson wrote: >> >>> How, exactly, is the Principle of Equivalence used by Einstein to >>> develop GR? TIA, AG >>> >>

Re: Principle of Equivalence

2020-07-07 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 8:05:28 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 4:18 PM Alan Grayson > wrote: > >> How, exactly, is the Principle of Equivalence used by Einstein to develop >> GR? TIA, AG >> > > > This lecture by Sean Carroll should answer all your questions: > > URL:

Re: Quantum computing is like QAnon?

2020-07-07 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 6:44 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: > *If we can factorise a number sensibly bigger than 15 in my lifetime, I > will be impressed* Back in 2017 the number 291,311 was factored by a quantum computer: The experimental factorization of 291311

Re: Quantum computing is like QAnon?

2020-07-07 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 7:56 AM Philip Thrift wrote: *> 30 years from now quantum computers (as promoted in 2020) will still > have no impact on practical computing applications.* > Did you use a quantum computer to obtain that forecast or just conventional computing? Is your methodology more

Re: Quantum computing is like QAnon?

2020-07-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 6 Jul 2020, at 14:41, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 6:46:16 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 6:19 AM Philip Thrift > wrote: > > Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh > > > Take it from me when I say no nation on this planet is doing strategic >

Re: Quantum computing is like QAnon?

2020-07-07 Thread Philip Thrift
Dr. B may still be right though. 30 years from now quantum computers (as promoted in 2020) will still have no impact on practical computing applications. Maybe in cryptography, or maybe not. Though quantum aspects in materials science could turn out to be useful, so its impact on computing

Re: Forcing as a computational process

2020-07-07 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 9:29:31 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 4 Jul 2020, at 19:25, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 5:31:24 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 3 Jul 2020, at 14:30, Lawrence Crowell >> wrote: >> >> It does not need that sort of

Re: Quantum computing is like QAnon?

2020-07-07 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
I thought the big application of QC after encryption, was going to be protein folding and similar biomolecular interactions. Brent On 7/7/2020 4:56 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: Dr. B may still be right though. 30 years from now quantum computers (as promoted in 2020) will still have no impact

Re: Quantum computing is like QAnon?

2020-07-07 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 5:44:55 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 6 Jul 2020, at 14:41, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 6:46:16 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 6:19 AM Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh >>> >> >> >