Quantum Computing Breakthrough - The World may soon change as we know it!

[Dr.Grass]

drkohler said:

spurgeonryan said:
I read most of it. Totally beyond me what it is all about. What does it actually mean? What will soon be possible and why are they at a tipping point?

You know what they say about nuclear fission?

"Nuclear fission is the technology of the future. Always was, always will be..."

Same for this quantum computing stuff. You'll never see this on your desk. Maybe one day we will see quantum encrypted data transfer thnrough fibers.. the rest is just wishful thinking.

You mean fusion right.

When (practical) fusion is indeed achieved, we will have unlimited energy, zero harmful side effects, and a natural recycling furnace that will strip any material on the planet down to it's constituent atoms.

So this can already be done, but the power yield is negative. Basically (and now I'm rambling cause I'm stoned) they suspend a sphere of liquid plasma in a magnetic box and it heats up to sun-like temperatures.

There are certainly more steps to take, but the major hurdle in this case isn't the difficulty of making a breakthrough; The problem is there isn't enough funding for proper R&D. If they used the Mars budget (which franky seems like a waste of time considering what's happening on our broken planet) only for fusion research then I would guess it would've happened by now.