I have been jokingly suggesting this idea to colleagues for a few months. The way I think of it is that if
you want to convert electric power into heat, you may as well extract the free computation that this makes available.
Of course the technology needs to be very stable, You don't want to have to replace your heating plant every couple of years.
Do the sums. 1 ZB = 10^9 TB. a TB had drive costs c US$50, probably less in quantity, so information storage is US$50 billion/year industry.
Doesn't seem implausible to be honest.
The article says they can communicate with one another.
Bst learning advice for CS I ever heard was to write an Operating System. Admittedly this was advice to 1st year University students for what to do after the summer, but it should still be sound for high school. All the information needed is out there.
Actually I think they are less common. Don't fission reactors emit electron anti-neutrinos?
Assuming none of them record it on their phones
Twitter is not, in any reasonable sense, a place to have private conversations. A more interesting question perhaps is whether this is slander (defamation in a public but transitory form, as by telling a lot of people verbally) and defamation in a permanent form (as by printing a book). In fact, in this day and age is slander even possible?
One more point, I left out.
The SI units have been defined in non-Earth centric ways for many many years now. A minute is 60 seconds where a second is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. Which is the same throughout the entire the universe and to the best of our knowledge the same for all time.
This measurement suffers from the same problem. Define a second at a point in time when a caesium-133 atom had never existed. We base our units of time on things that exist today and still don't even really have a solid grasp of what we are even measuring. At least, I have never heard of anyone claim to have a complete understanding of time, what it is, whether it exists naturally or is purely a construct of (human) consciousness and exactly how we all travel through it.
I don't know about complete, but Stephen Hawkings "A Brief History of Time" (and the real physics textbooks underlying the popularisation) show a pretty good degree of understanding.
As for measuring time. We rely on our (extensive) observation that lots of other processes in the universe correlate very well with the oscillation of the radiation
You start by finding a complex hamiltonian with a ground state describing the solution to your problem
I'm not a math whiz, but to me, this says: "You already know the answer to the problem"...
No. You can think of this as posing the question in a very specific way -- a little constructing a wire frame so that soap films on it
naturally form the shape of the best surface for some purpose.
The open question is what questions can in fact be posed this way?
A traditional digital computer is pretty hellish to program too if you take away all the props -- you have to find a set of bit values for the memory such this immense consrtructrion of hundreds of millions of gates, clocks, latches, etc. will evolve to give your answer in a reasonably ti,me.
An Adiabatic Quantum Computer is quite a different beast from a quantum computer in the usual sense, and even if it can solve the same class of problems in polynomial time (not at all obvious at this stage) it isn't at all clear that 1 qubit in this machine does the same work as 1 traditional qubit.
They are, to be honest, being a little bit naughty calling this a quantum computer at all, although it does compute and has quanta, but so does my phone.
I'm not saying the TSA are right. I also find them annoying, and probably ineffective. I was just taking issue with your specific claim: "The TSA has done nothing to make us more secure." which seems overbroad.
We have a equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrated.
