Subj : Re: Incomputable (was: some other thread) To : comp.programming,comp.object From : Gerry Quinn Date : Thu Aug 18 2005 12:51 pm In article , Chris@Sonnack.com says... > Gerry Quinn writes: > > I suggested that the *theoretical* power of quantum computing was > > unprecedented, but that I believe in practice error correction will > > bite it in the ass and no qualitative benefits will accrue at all, > > except perhaps in the simulation of quantum systems... > One of the things that totally bemuses me about Q/M is how nice, clean > theory runs afoul of weirdly pedestrian pitfalls. It's because the theoreticians are working with incomplete physics. Another example, I believe, is the large amount of garbage about black hole interior solutions and warp drives that only exists because thermodynamics (which underlies time) is ignored by general relativity theoreticians. - Gerry Quinn .