I dig the whole quantum computing thing, hence I tend to read about it quite a bit. Fascinating thing, quantum mechanics.

One of the goals/concepts of QC is the fact that quarks (I believe) seem to have the ability to be in more than once place and time at once, the theory being, that if they can use these subatomics for calculations, they can do infinately complicated calculations (*slight* overstatement) nearly instantaneously due to those odd temporal and spatial qualities.

There was an interesting fiction series over at securityfocus.com in which QC factored highly. I believe it was called "Chasing the Wind" or some such. I will hunt for it, its worth the read, even without the QC mention. It's interesting. <g> Optical computing is also one of the goals. Yay! Photons, not electrons! Yay! <grin>

Update: Added a "calculations" so a sentence made sense.

In reply to Re: (OT)another bbc world service news item by Silicon Cactus
in thread (OT)another bbc world service news item by zakzebrowski

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