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All of this stuff is so fake. Quantum computing is a vaporware scam and I've been saying it for at least a decade at this point. Waste of time and money by VCs
by NanoYohaneTSU 2y ago
All of this stuff is so fake. Quantum computing is a vaporware scam and I've been saying it for at least a decade at this point. Waste of time and money by VCs who wants government money forever.
- evandrofisico 2y agoQuantum computing seems to be in the same realm as nuclear fusion as a power source. My Quantum theory professor used to say that in the 1960's, when he was a physics student in the Soviet Union it was "the energy of the future, in 20 years everything will be powered by nuclear fusion". When i was an undergrad student 20 years ago I did hear that "soon, quantum computing will change the world", and yet here we are, every year someone builds a new machine but no one has yet to factorize that 21 = 7x3 in a general way.
- kgwgk 2y agoFusion is the energy of the future – and it always will be.
- short_sells_poo 2y agoYou could also say we are already using fusion power - via solar panels. We have a massive ball of plasma powered by fusion in the sky and we are harvesting the energy it creates at an ever growing scale. Whether we'll be able to replicate it profitably at small scale is a question.
- fluoridation 2y agoOf course, by that definition all forms of power generation are fusion, more or less removed from the fusion reactor in question.
- zeroonetwothree 2y agoSome part of geothermal energy comes from gravity which could be argued is not related to fusion (even if the matter undergoing gravity was created in fusion)
- fluoridation 2y agoGeothermal energy is derived from differences in kinetic energy between different layers of the planet (so extracting it saps kinetic energy from the planet's rotation). The energy stored in the Earth's rotation comes from the kinetic energy in the Solar nebula, which itself comes from stellar explosions in the primordial universe, which themselves were caused by fusion.
- evandrofisico 2y agofollowing that definition even fossil fuels would be based on fusion, as most of it is comprised of photosynthetic life forms.
- red_trumpet 2y agoWait, you had a quantum theory Prof in the 60s, but you also were an undergrad 20 years ago? That's a ~40 year period in between, makes me curious to what happened.
- riku_iki 2y agosuccessful quantum transfer experiment.
- lobsterthief 2y agoRe-read his comment—his professor was recalling something from the 1960s. OP did not hear this information in the 1960s.
- fluoridation 2y agoThe professor taught GP quantum theory during the '00s, and in the '60s that same professor was a physics student in the USSR, where it was said that by the '80s fusion would power everything.