Well as I said. Too each their own. I believe you might not get into a shit load of trouble if you do it at precisely the right time.
Much of Theoretical physics is pure math. String theory for example. It is pure math it cannot be tested with our current technology. It makes predictions we have no way to test. Someday we might be able to test them but Einsteins prediction that gravity would bend light if my recollection is correct took 20 years before we could test it. So I would say just because something can't be tested today doesn't mean it cannot be tested at all.
I will always believe it takes all types for progress to happen, Schroedinger proposed a experiment that too this day cannot be tested yet it is accepted science because super position is a thing. There is much more to this world than what we can see. and hear and smell. Quantum mechanics proves that. A particle can literally be in two places at once that defies all logic. Hell it almost defies the scientific method. Quantum computers have you looked at how they work? Its incredible. It changes everything. They should not work at all yet they do. I wouldn't even believe it if I hadn't actually had the chance to use one. Something that was frankly way above my pay grade and beyond my understanding at the time. Just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I spent endless hours understanding how they work. I do now. At least pretty well and Basically its exploiting quantum entanglement to get probabilities out of an un observed particle. Theoretically its proof nothing exists. but thats just my own theory. Albeit one I think its reasonable but I haven't shared it with anyone.
I'm not sure why you'd thinking quantum computers wouldn't work? They're about to get even more complicated with trinary functionality.
Your CPU works 'cause we're pretty damned adept at particle physics. Not everything is fully understood, but that computer you're using only works because we are able to accurately predict what an individual electron will do.
To that I'll add that it amuses me when people get mad when their computer breaks. It's amazing that the damned thing works in the first place. We're literally shunting around individual electrons. Our communications are often carried as photons!
They're still weird, however. There's a reason they call 'em the particle zoo.
I'm sorry I have to object. Quantum Computers operate on the uncertainty principle. Its why they are so good at facial recognition. Quantum computers do not work without some acceptance of the conscious mind. They don't operate without observation. This is has been repeatedly proven. I agree the computer I am using that operates on a binary system passing electrons down pathways is something we can predict. Quantum computers operate in exactly the opposite way by predicting probabilities we can't I hate to get technical but on the most basic level a quantum computer operates on a pair of quantum entangled particles. One particle is cooled to close to absolute zero. Then calculations are passed through the super cooled state and predictions can be made from the super cooled particle that is un observed but observing its pair.
You said you object and then went on to say stuff that's not something I'd dispute - though I'd caution against referencing Heisenberg too frequently. It's not just willy nilly. We're pretty good at making a bunch of predictions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing#Principles_of_operation
And observation is, well, a bit of a misnomer. A better term might be 'measured' or 'quantified.'
Even then, it's weird. :-/ We were smashing particles long 'fore that CERN smasher got built. We were smashing them back when I was in school. ORNL has a smasher. I've been to ORNL, but just as a tourist. I'm not a physicist. They don't let me smash particles.
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