Yes, all their little atoms in cold states etc could be mere theater to distract from the fact quantum algorithms can be done using classical computers. On the other hand, I have also suspected too that it is only very small things like factoring the number 15 that can be done using actual so called quantum computers, because if Christian is right there is no spooky and thus those frozen atoms cannot really do anything we cannot do with octonians aka the topology of the 7-sphere. (That is, maybe 15 is so trivial that it gets solved anyway, even though the whole quantum spookiness thing isn't real thus isn't really how it is doing it.) Thus that it would turn out that the quantum algorithms will not even actually work since they depend upon a spookiness that does not actually exist, or, at best, they will simply be mechanically-faster at doing the octonian math that can perfectly well, albeit slower, be done by Turing machines. I used to think that once we got to more qubits we would find oops they don't behave spooky afterall, quantum algorithms don't actually work. Now though I am also thinking hmm maybe qubits are merely a faster chip, maybe the algorithms will turn out to work, but if so, they should work on simulated (by Turing machines aka classical computers) "quantum" computers too. Just maybe slower. Basically what the frozen atoms would be buying you is analog high-resolution floating-point numbers, in essence obfuscating how many bits your floating point registers actually effectively are. They might even amount to analog floating-point octonian registers. Maybe even more than one such register per Nohu Abc! Oh and also I guess maybe an analog floating point octonian arithmetic process (agency) too not just passive registers. -MarkM-
Yes, all their little atoms in cold states etc could be mere theater to distract from the fact quantum algorithms can be done using classical computers. On the other hand, I have also suspected too that it is only very small things like factoring the number 15 that can be done using actual so called quantum computers, because if Christian is right there is no spooky and thus those frozen atoms cannot really do anything we cannot do with octonians aka the topology of the 7-sphere. (That is, maybe 15 is so trivial that it gets solved anyway, even though the whole quantum spookiness thing isn't real thus isn't really how it is doing it.) Thus that it would turn out that the quantum algorithms will not even actually work since they depend upon a spookiness that does not actually exist, or, at best, they will simply be mechanically-faster at doing the octonian math that can perfectly well, albeit slower, be done by Turing machines. I used to think that once we got to more qubits we would find oops they don't behave spooky afterall, quantum algorithms don't actually work. Now though I am also thinking hmm maybe qubits are merely a faster chip, maybe the algorithms will turn out to work, but if so, they should work on simulated (by Turing machines aka classical computers) "quantum" computers too. Just maybe slower. Basically what the frozen atoms would be buying you is analog high-resolution floating-point numbers, in essence obfuscating how many bits your floating point registers actually effectively are. They might even amount to analog floating-point octonian registers. Maybe even more than one such register per Nohu Abc! Oh and also I guess maybe an analog floating point octonian arithmetic process (agency) too not just passive registers. -MarkM-

Yes, all their little atoms in cold states etc could be mere theater to distract from the fact quantum algorithms can be done using classical computers. On the other hand, I have also suspected too that it is only very small things like factoring the number 15 that can be done using actual so called quantum computers, because if Christian is right there is no spooky and thus those frozen atoms cannot really do anything we cannot do with octonians aka the topology of the 7-sphere. (That is, maybe 15 is so trivial that it gets solved anyway, even though the whole quantum spookiness thing isn't real thus isn't really how it is doing it.) Thus that it would turn out that the quantum algorithms will not even actually work since they depend upon a spookiness that does not actually exist, or, at best, they will simply be mechanically-faster at doing the octonian math that can perfectly well, albeit slower, be done by Turing machines. I used to think that once we got to more qubits we would find oops they don't behave spooky afterall, quantum algorithms don't actually work. Now though I am also thinking hmm maybe qubits are merely a faster chip, maybe the algorithms will turn out to work, but if so, they should work on simulated (by Turing machines aka classical computers) "quantum" computers too. Just maybe slower. Basically what the frozen atoms would be buying you is analog high-resolution floating-point numbers, in essence obfuscating how many bits your floating point registers actually effectively are. They might even amount to analog floating-point octonian registers. Maybe even more than one such register per Nohu Abc! Oh and also I guess maybe an analog floating point octonian arithmetic process (agency) too not just passive registers. -MarkM-

Yes, all their little atoms in cold states etc could be mere theater to distract from the fact quantum algorithms can be done using classical computers. On the other hand, I have also suspected too that it is only very small things like factoring the number 15 that can be done using actual so called quantum computers, because if Christian is right there is no spooky and thus those frozen atoms cannot really do anything we cannot do with octonians aka the topology of the 7-sphere. (That is, maybe 15 is so trivial that it gets solved anyway, even though the whole quantum spookiness thing isn't real thus isn't really how it is doing it.) Thus that it would turn out that the quantum algorithms will not even actually work since they depend upon a spookiness that does not actually exist, or, at best, they will simply be mechanically-faster at doing the octonian math that can perfectly well, albeit slower, be done by Turing machines. I used to think that once we got to more qubits we would find oops they don't behave spooky afterall, quantum algorithms don't actually work. Now though I am also thinking hmm maybe qubits are merely a faster chip, maybe the algorithms will turn out to work, but if so, they should work on simulated (by Turing machines aka classical computers) "quantum" computers too. Just maybe slower. Basically what the frozen atoms would be buying you is analog high-resolution floating-point numbers, in essence obfuscating how many bits your floating point registers actually effectively are. They might even amount to analog floating-point octonian registers. Maybe even more than one such register per Nohu Abc! Oh and also I guess maybe an analog floating point octonian arithmetic process (agency) too not just passive registers. -MarkM-