Posted on 08/08/2017 9:59:03 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The coldest place in the known universe is on Earth! It's quantum computing company D-Wave's HQ, and massive plumbing required to cool the device known as a quantum computer.
Linus SHOWS the setup via a YOURUBE.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...
March 15, 2017
After more than 100 years of debate featuring the likes of Einstein himself, physicists have finally offered up mathematical proof of the third law of thermodynamics, which states that a temperature of absolute zero cannot be physically achieved because it's impossible for the entropy (or disorder) of a system to hit zero.
While scientists have long suspected that there's an intrinsic 'speed limit' on the act of cooling in our Universe that prevents us from ever achieving absolute zero (0 Kelvin, -273.15°C, or -459.67°F), this is the strongest evidence yet that our current laws of physics hold true when it comes to the lowest possible temperature.
"We show that you can't actually cool a system to absolute zero with a finite amount of resources and we went a step further," one of the team, Lluis Masanes from University College London, told IFLScience.
"We then conclude that it is impossible to cool a system to absolute zero in a finite time, and we established a relation between time and the lowest possible temperature. It's the speed of cooling."
The coldest known natural temperature at one degree K.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang_Nebula
OUCH!
Matter tat does not vibrate is no longer material. It is random quarks with no linkage or activity. 0 is 0.
Is the quantum computer really in the box, unless you look at it?
I'm guessing that there is too much cosmic background radiation for that to happen.
Well, if it's in the box, either the cat ate it and died, or the cat said f*** that sh** and is still alive. But you cannot tell until you open the box.
Then you open the box and the cat has sharpened it’s claws on the screen and used the keypad like kitty litter.
Now you’ll never know if the quantum computer actually worked.
DAMN YOU, SCHROEDINGER, AND YOUR LITTLE CAT, TOO!
“I thought there were places in space that reached absolute zero.”
I don’t think an error of mine has ever received so much attention.
Oh, well, at least I learned something.
Wow, cool! Thanks for the ping. Didn’t know any company and/or government had gotten up to 2,000 cubits yet.
BTW, do you think there are any Manhattan-type projects out there pushing things out to the mega- or gigacubit range, and what kind of problems would require that kind of computational power?
I don’t know much about this stuff, but am beginning to suspect that such machines and true AI may go hand in hand.
Are we talking singularity?
Start at 1:40
Instant Frozen Beer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzEC7WWeNyA
The Russians again (I think)..... start at 1:20
Amazing Instant Ice! How to Supercool Water?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NCEJqFC1uw
Oops, of course I meant qubit! But my mind was in a quantum mechanical state whereby every possible spelling was taken into consideration, even wrong ones.
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