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Cryptocurrency hype, fusion hype ( 10 years away!), AI singularity, robots, tulips— and of course: quantum blah blah

Will it work out? Will investors see profit? Who knows. I like Sabine Hossenfelder the youtube physicist. Neil DeGrasse Tyson gets a lot of attention, obviously, but if you actually want to learn something— watch her.

1 posted on 01/01/2026 8:51:52 AM PST by MarlonRando
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To: MarlonRando

It’s a good thing we didn’t have social media during the Industrial Revolution.

Steam power? It’ll never catch on!
Power looms? Who needs them?
Locomotives and rails? Bah, going 15 mph is dangerous! Ridiculous!
Steamboat? Pshaw! They blow up!
Electricity? You could get electrocuted!
Automobiles? Why? I’ve got trusty old Dobbin in the barn!


2 posted on 01/01/2026 8:58:19 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: MarlonRando

Or they might.

It’s the “uncertainty principle” 😊


3 posted on 01/01/2026 8:59:47 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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The world’s leading quantum computing company makes a profit every year.

IBM.


4 posted on 01/01/2026 9:00:37 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: MarlonRando

I spent the day with a physicist at my alma mater; he is the head of his department’s quantum computing project. He talked about the practical problems in the field, and they’re daunting. The three biggest ones are stability, signal-to-noise ratio, and interfacing to outside (i.e. non-quantum) electronics. In each of these areas, improvements on the order of four or five orders of magnitude have yet to be made.

That’s not to say they won’t be made. In conventional electronics, specifically in the field of semiconductors and integrated circuits, improvements of six or seven orders of magnitude have been made, but we’ve been working on it for more than seventy years.


5 posted on 01/01/2026 9:01:31 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Bkmk


7 posted on 01/01/2026 9:18:42 AM PST by sauropod
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To: MarlonRando

I’d like to get me one of them quantum computers. How tiny is the keyboard and how fine are the fonts?


10 posted on 01/01/2026 9:29:17 AM PST by BipolarBob (These violent delights have violent ends.)
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To: MarlonRando; lightman

You’re right! One can learn a lot from physicist Sabine Hossenfelder. All one can learn from Neil DeGrasse Tyson is atheism, which is totally false!

Meanwhile, we may or may not be able to develop quantum computers. But humans will never go to Mars!!


16 posted on 01/01/2026 10:09:31 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: MarlonRando

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. I’m not sure how they would overcome that with quantum processors.


21 posted on 01/01/2026 10:31:30 AM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: MarlonRando

Regarding Sabine, I often just don’t get the German sense of humor.


25 posted on 01/01/2026 11:35:26 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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They already work. I’ve seen a first hand demonstration, and on the specific tasks they are programmed to do, they literally blow the performance of standard computers away. What they are limited by, primarily, is the variety of things that they can do. They are not general purpose machines, but rather machines that can only do very specific computations. But those computations can be done at speeds that defy in some ways our understanding of how they were done that quickly in our current dimensional time/space. That’s the other main limitation, but they will eventually make progress on that too, I would suspect.


30 posted on 01/01/2026 1:49:40 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Principles, not partisanship)
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Schrodingers cat smells a rat.


32 posted on 01/01/2026 2:07:58 PM PST by spokeshave ( Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads, Curmudgeons & old Geezers)
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Great theories, but worthless until they are applied and engineered to produce meaningful results. Key trigger is the “just around the corner”, “provided positive result in laboratory testing”, etc.


33 posted on 01/01/2026 2:41:03 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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