>To give an example of the more scientific nature of CS, the study of quantum computing is almost solely in the domain of computer scientists and physicists. T

>To give an example of the more scientific nature of CS, the study of quantum computing is almost solely in the domain of computer scientists and physicists. This is still begging the question of if quantum computing is a science. Quantom physics is clearly an area of science, as it is based around understanded the physical mechanics of the universe. Quantom computing is based on applying our knowledge of Quantom mechanics to engineer a system whose results can be used to answer some computational question. The only part of computer science that I can confidently say falls in the domain of science is P=NP (slightly generalized). It is my understanding that everytime we have found some physical phenomena that would allow us to solve NP-Hard problems in polynomial time, the laws of physics ended up working out to require some exponential input. This is a question that seems to speak to the nature of the universe, and has predictive power.