Say what..... computing

[arrie]

Has anyone heard of this new (not so new new, if that makes sense) phenomena called quantum computing?

 

[dknguyen]

Has anyone heard of this new (not so new new, if that makes sense) phenomena called quantum computing?

Phenomena? That sounds a bit wishy-washy pop culture-ish. It's more like research into the development of quantum computers.

 

[arrie]

People are telling me they get computing power of 7 qubits from one drop of liquid of this type of computer.
Does that make sense?
So what is this liquid, pee?
And yes, wishy-washy is more or less my feeling towards the above statement.

I believe I can be wrong, but would you believe them. A whole computing phenomena delivering near teraflop performance from a drop of liquid.
It's the end of the world as we know it.

 

[Sceadwian]

They come up with this or that breakthrough every few months that prove it's possible but practical implementation is still probably 10-20+ years off.

 

[mneary]

Quantum computing is heralded as the last step in miniaturization because it indicates a 1/0 state with a single electron. Anyone wanna bet this is true?

 

[Sceadwian]

No, it's significantly more complex than just bits and bytes, it's a completely different way of computing. Check out the Wikipedia entry.

 

[arrie]

From what I understand "it" can have both states (on and off) at once.
Just to completely fongle up your brain.
It is a seriously complicated process, unlike anything computer today.
The thing is, I don't know what part of it is utter hogwash.