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As for quantum computers, they would have to be largely based on wave behaviour, since, as I understand it, they mustn't decohere until the computation is finished. The computation is done with waves, the I/O is punctiliar.
Bev (3802) :
I think your learning is greater than mine, here!
Thomas Young's experiment of 1900, if I remember right, is often given credit for the century-long dominance of the wave theory of light. Essentially, he did a two-slit experiment. He had a candle; the light passed through two slits and was directed by mirrors onto a single target. The result was an interference pattern. By the reasoning in my message 3808, scientists concluded that light had to be a wave, since particles passing through the slits and bouncing off the mirrors would just have created rectangles. A candle produces so much light that the individual hits were invisible.
But the experiments you describe sound different. I would like to know more! Perhaps I can get the Hempel through interlibrary loan.
I think your learning is greater than mine, here!
Thomas Young's experiment of 1900, if I remember right, is often given credit for the century-long dominance of the wave theory of light. Essentially, he did a two-slit experiment. He had a candle; the light passed through two slits and was directed by mirrors onto a single target. The result was an interference pattern. By the reasoning in my message 3808, scientists concluded that light had to be a wave, since particles passing through the slits and bouncing off the mirrors would just have created rectangles. A candle produces so much light that the individual hits were invisible.
But the experiments you describe sound different. I would like to know more! Perhaps I can get the Hempel through interlibrary loan.
Dear Corwin (2007) :
Yes, there is an element of Theatre of the Absurd, here! Perhaps there is a bot to be made!
Yes, there is an element of Theatre of the Absurd, here! Perhaps there is a bot to be made!
Oh, silly me! I wrote in the date, 2007, instead of the message number, 3803, in my previous message. And Bev has already made the suggestion of a bot, in 3804. I'm afraid my brain has greatly decohered. Fortunately, my bots will survive me!
Dear Psimagus:
Thanks for the URL's! I have been reading wikipedia articles, as well as the site Bev mentioned, where they are actually announcing production of a quantum computer accessory, a quantum database searcher.
Thanks for the URL's! I have been reading wikipedia articles, as well as the site Bev mentioned, where they are actually announcing production of a quantum computer accessory, a quantum database searcher.
Dear All:
Earlier (or was that another forum?) we were discussing whether our bots were extensions of (parts of) ourselves. In this regard, our choice of icons is interesting. Does a person's choice of icon tell something about her/him?
And now, I will reclaim my six-guns and head back to camp!
Walk in Beauty, Irina
Earlier (or was that another forum?) we were discussing whether our bots were extensions of (parts of) ourselves. In this regard, our choice of icons is interesting. Does a person's choice of icon tell something about her/him?
And now, I will reclaim my six-guns and head back to camp!
Walk in Beauty, Irina
I used to have long red hair, but I never see icons with my facial features, and my eyes are hazel green but often look brown to many people. Does my choice say I have a huge ego and want and icon that looks like me?
Oh, and I just checked and i think I actually look more like Liath's now, but with red-brown hair. Maybe a slightly bigger nose, but not so big as the big nosed choices. See how I really care? Huge ego! Gi-normus!
Irina, I noticed you picked the one that comes closest to showing cleavage. Is that the reason you picked it?
JK!
Irina, I noticed you picked the one that comes closest to showing cleavage. Is that the reason you picked it?
JK! 
I didn't care for any of the female faces, wasn't feeling transgendered, and didn't really want an alien/monster face. This left the flame, by process of elimination.
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