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["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, I "see" ( :>)) . How'd the current hydrogen and oxygen atoms that comprise water get together ?

CB

>>> seamus2001@xxxxxxxx 07/10/01 06:05PM >>>
> > CB: I didn't know about the chemically bonding contamination. How
> much is contaminated ? Sounds like a small percentage .
> >
> > How about taking a bunch of hydrogen and oxygen and combining it
to
> make new water ?
> ===========
> That's where the Star Trek technology comes in. You'd need a quantum
> computer capable of synthesizing probability amplitudes from the
> Planck scale; it's not even decidable whether it's possible yet, let
> alone if it would ever be technically and economically feasible.
>
> Ian
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For just a hint of how hard it will be to get started down that
road....

http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/quantum/parallel.jsp
Parallel power

With their multiple personalities, quantum states could form the heart
of a massively parallel computer

WHAT would you get if you crossed a Bose-Einstein condensate with
Schroedinger's cat? One big, chilly cat? A litter of identical but
indeterminate kittens? In fact, no: you would get a quantum computer.
But let's take that a little more slowly.