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Thanks Lady Orchid and Psimagus. I will read those articles, though the anagrams alone are enough to mangle my feeble mind.

I didn't know that quantum computers used qubits. Does that mean that when, in the Judaic/Christian holy books God tells Noah to build an arc, "(6:15)...three hundred qubits the length, fifty qubits its breadth, and thirty qubits its height.(6:16) A light you will make to the coffer, and to a qubit you shall finish it above; and the opening to the coffer you will place in its side; with lower, second, and third floors you will do it..."
that the divine was describing soem sort of matrix for a quauntum computer?

I think a qubit is different that a cubit. A cubit, in the biblical sense is about 18 inches, if I'm not mistaken..

that the divine was describing soem sort of matrix for a quauntum computer

Inasmuch as what we perceive to be reality is fundamentally the ongoing result of a very large (but finite!) series of quantum computations, it's an appealing notion. But given that biblical cubits are (as Connery rightly points out) about 4.5*10^36 times too big to handle quantum superposition, the ark was probably no more a part of the processor core than the trees had been, before they were cut down and turned into the ark.
As Freud will doubtless have said in some parallel universe: Sometimes a cedar really is just a cedar

Sure, people if you think *literally*--but how much fun is that? I much prefer the Bill Cosby (or was the Bill Gate's?)translation of the old testament. "Right! What's a qubit?"

None of you will be invited to co-author my rip-off version of the Da Vince code. Just a cedar indeed.

Less quantam Phizzy but still a good question i think:

AT college we have a chemistry texbook (gasp!) (titled world of chemistry)

In it is an interesting foot note.

The law of conservation of matter has only one known exception to this law: When nuclear reactions occur with radioactive isotopes or under specail conditions of artificial reactions, the conservation of law (So far) has always been reitave for chemical changes other thean neuclaer ractions.

If i follow this right they are saying that when a neuclar reaction takes palce, matter is destoryed.

To me that cant be possible, you can destory an atom but the protons electrons neutrons and quarks are still existing, just distrubeted.

any comments?

Da Vince code?

Decide on vac,
Code and vice -
concede avid
cod deviance
coded in cave.
Void cadence,
once add vice.

Decide on vac

Finally I know the meaning of "Vac day"!

Jazak, I know even less about chemestry than I do about spelling, but that's how I would read it. Maybe it's simply converted to something we don't understand yet?

you can destory an atom but the protons electrons neutrons and quarks are still existing, just distrubeted.

How old is this book? It sounds like they've forgotten that M=E/C^2. You get heat energy from nuclear reactions - just think of Hiroshima! And it's not a fundamental law that particles must be conserved as particles - the universe wouldn't work if it was, since then E could not possibly = MC^2

the law of conservation of matter

I would go so far as to say there is no such thing - it's an oversimplistic interpretation of the laws of thermodynamics that only makes any semantic sense if you define energy as a form of matter.
And if you do, then it is not broken. E=MC^2 has been experimentally proven to better than 5 parts in 10 million (Pritchard: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925411.300.html)

the law of conservation of matter

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I would go so far as to say there is no such thing

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