General Chat / My friend's dad built a working quantum computer.

Its true, the first Quantum computer (only 8qbit out of 32 though) was built under the supervisoin of my friend's dad.

It is currently the fastest single processor on the planet, but only about one millionth of a 32(full)qbit machine. A full quantum computer would be the fastest computing machine possible, ever.

Its fucking incredible, and I'm sure anyone who knows anytihng about quantum computing knows what I'm talking about. He's seriously like one of my best friends, and his family owns the patent.

holy shit.

I just had an orgasm.

I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about, but it sounds kinda cool.

Is that like a really really powerful computer? With like an Intel Pentium 7004 or something?

Its completely above and beyond any processor on the planet.

The final product is many times faster than all of the world's proccesors.

What's the point of it? What can it do that others can't?

Run the matrix.

...it's all well and good to make things like this....but when there's no obvious point....

Now, rewind this a bit, and someone please tell me what a quantum computer actually is.

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One word: Proof.

That's all, I kinda like proof when someone says something. Not that I don't think you're lying, it's just that when it's something like that, it gets me a bit skeptical.

...Not that I don't think you're lying...

Think about that for a second.

Oh, and Foozy, what is your friend's last name? Oxford, Copenhagen?

What can it do that others can't?

Run Glasshouse Gardens at normal game speed.

Last name: Wood, a scientist at the Naval research Laboratory

I may be able to get a picture of the machine, or the patent (after its been submitted)

And mantis, Imagine playing Video games with graphics more advanced than say, Finding Nemo, or final flight of the osiris,

Or finding Pi within a second.

That didn't answer the question. We all know that it's fast and can run computer games, but what is it!! What is different about it than a normal proccessor, beside the speed.

Quantum computers make me pop a boner.

A Quantam computer is a infinately efficient process of forcing atoms through a mollecular gate, and changing their atomic state within a small pipeline, dealing with 32 states instead of the 2 available in binary, and dealing with each value much much faster, as it can force atoms through the pipeline at extremely high speeds, much much higher than the speed of binary computers, wich is at about 4 billion values per second. (4 gigabytes)

The patent is technically owned by the navy, but because he and his team developed it, it is their intellectual property, and they get royalties

P.S.- this is the friend whose father is right now working on the patent to send to the lawyer. I might be able to get pics, or maybe a powerpoint presentation that he made to the naval superiors.

Search "Kent s. Wood" or go here:

http://xweb.nrl.navy.mil/

and look under reaserch projects, where "QVD" is listed, with a small pic of the pipeline. Theres no project info, but its a start.

hmmm... i like fast computers that can run any amount of programs without a single pause. Imagine if all the rct2 loading bars all loading consecutively in less than 0.02 seconds or something, had 15 internet windows open (all loading), were allocating diskspace for a download, installing photoshop 7, deleting a file that was about 1 gig, and doing a disk cleanup all at the same time without skipping a beat. Imagine if all of this was done at the same time in less than 30 seconds. I'm not saying foozys friends pantent can do this, I'm saying this is the goal of a fast computer. Considering I already do those things reguardless of how fast my comp is

The Quantum computer can do that all before your eye can recognise that anything has happened at all.

Its just that fast. Billions and billions of times faster than anything available today.

figures I'd be off by a few orders of magnitude =P