<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Adrian Tymes </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>One might view the human brain as a kind of quantum computer, in this<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>sense. </blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">​There is not one speck of evidence that the human brain uses any sort of quantum process in its information processing.  </font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>There is also the question of how quantum computers work.  As I<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>understand it, they are fed a problem for which there are many<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>possible solutions, all of which could in theory be evaluated by<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>traditional computers in parallel - if you had enough processors.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">​<font size="4">To equal a 300 Qbit Quantum Computer you'd need 2^300 processors, and that's larger than the number of atoms in the observable universe. With a little luck Google hopes to have a 49 Qbit Quantum Computer up and running within a year, if so they would achieve quantum supremacy,  that means it could solve some problems that are too big for the largest conventional supercomputer​, even the </font></font><font size="4">Tianhe-2 in China that needs 24 megawatts to operate.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">John K Clark </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div><br></div></div>