Unlimited Processing Power. Is it Possible?? - Hardware & Software

Once we find a way to harvest and use Human idiocity as an energy source... :science: will be made.

Go and slap your friend.

[QUOTE=compwhizii;24187564]Christ was overrated.[/QUOTE] Couldn't agree more.

Nope.

[QUOTE=Squad;24215103]If you are going to steal something, steal it with a quote and get it right. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.” -Einstein.[/QUOTE] That doesn't make any sense. Aren't humans the most intelligent and wise anything we have ever discovered/seen?

Well there has been some study in faster than light communication which has had some success which means with thousands of computer connected with such connections you could get as close as you could get to unlimited processing power. Also [URL=http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080813/full/news.2008.1038.html]Article[/url] about faster than light communication.

[QUOTE=Robber;24218295]That doesn't make any sense. Aren't humans the most intelligent and wise anything we have ever discovered/seen?[/QUOTE] No. Sure, we are a very intelligent race as a whole, but most some sea animals like dolphins are some of the smartest non-human animals that we've seen. On the quote, humans are stupid in a sense that we have no regard for the life around us and will destroy it for our own benefit.

An CPU with unlimited processing power would be like a train that lays its own track. Maybe if the CPU could add onto itself and optimize its architecture itself, then maybe? - Though at any given time, it's processing ability is "finite" but ever expanding.

Problem with such power is that if you write a program that can learn by itself, it'd be self-aware practically instantly when it's runned. That'd be pretty bad, a machine becoming self-aware and reaching states of much higher intellectual functions than humans in under a second. SKYNET HUR HUR :downs:

[QUOTE=Dirf;24246841]No. Sure, we are a very intelligent race as a whole, but most some sea animals like dolphins are some of the smartest non-human animals that we've seen. On the quote, humans are stupid in a sense that we have no regard for the life around us and will destroy it for our own benefit.[/QUOTE] That's not true at all. I can't think of any species that cares as much about other species as we do.

Wait, humans care of other species?

[QUOTE=imadaman;24248285]Wait, humans care of other species?[/QUOTE] Yes? Pandas would be extinct without us.

[QUOTE=Fippe;24247908]Problem with such power is that if you write a program that can learn by itself, it'd be self-aware practically instantly when it's runned. That'd be pretty bad, a machine becoming self-aware and reaching states of much higher intellectual functions than humans in under a second. SKYNET HUR HUR :downs:[/QUOTE] I was thinking more like that giant computer (megabrain..was it?) in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy.

[QUOTE=ytr191;24186776]He told me unless you had something like the sun to power it.[/QUOTE] That would make the electricity supply unlimited, but the processing power would still be limited and always will be unless the entire universe was made into a processor. [editline]02:29PM[/editline] [QUOTE=PunchedInFac;24261107]I was thinking more like that giant computer (megabrain..was it?) in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy.[/QUOTE] Deep Thought.

[QUOTE=collegegrad;24187696]Well we're all going to hit a wall very soon with technology. Soon we will have to rely onto quantum mechanics to create SSDs and other technology that will move onto the quantum sizes.[/QUOTE] The computer already is based on QM. All modern electronics is. Without QM there wouldn't been for example transistors. What you mean is a computer using a quantum computer, which makes use of the properties of nature described by QM - E.g. superposition of states. [QUOTE=collegegrad;24187696]Why are we going to hit a wall with technology you ask? Well.. quantum mechanics isn't exactly very good with human logic as it defies everything logical that we humans think of -- such as 1 particle being in 2 places in the same time, one particle interfering with itself, etc. We're gonna hit one big slump before we get into the "Quantum Revoultion" era. This is gonna be soon too, as in within the next 10 years.[/QUOTE] We are still far away from realizing a practical QPC. All the theoretical basics do exist ([URL="http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v74/i20/p4091_1"]For more than 15+ years[/URL]). But so far, we can only do simple tasks like factorizing e.g. the number 15 into the primefactors 3 and 5 using e.g. two entangled ions in a paul-trap.

[QUOTE=Robber;24248619]Yes? Pandas would be extinct without us.[/QUOTE] we should stop screwing with species, unless were fixing problems we created. species go extinct every day, unless we put them to extinction don't fuck with them.

what next? [img]http://media.funlol.com/content/img/infinite-power.jpg[/img]

Divide the number of processors you have by zero.

[QUOTE=Tezza1234;24246901]train that lays its own track. [/QUOTE] thats possible [URL=http://filesmelt.com/][IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/wind_powered_train.png[/IMG][/URL]

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;24363640']thats possible [URL=http://filesmelt.com/][IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/wind_powered_train.png[/IMG][/URL][/QUOTE] I was about to say, that is pretty much what a tank is.

When you think about it reality is like an infinite computer. I wonder what it is computing.

What a silly question.

Quantum computers maybe?

[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;24366348]Quantum computers maybe?[/QUOTE] Even a billion quantum Computers will still be far away from unlimited.

[QUOTE=ColdFusion;24366392]Even a billion quantum Computers will still be far away from unlimited.[/QUOTE] But still, they could bruteforce SHA-256 in matter of seconds. Fact. Unlimited doesn't exists. Even the universe's not unlimited. It has it's own 'border' which extracts with the speed of light.

I'm from the future I am here to tell you all that in the year 2050, computers will run on the sun and gaming has restarted. Also, Halo 40 sucks man. Its like pong.

[QUOTE=Reborn9;24366249]When you think about it reality is like an infinite computer. I wonder what it is computing.[/QUOTE] Isn't reality computing at the speed of light?

[QUOTE=DeandreT;24366517]I'm from the future I am here to tell you all that in the year 2050, computers will run on the sun and gaming has restarted. Also, Halo 40 sucks man. Its like pong.[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.mikepouch.com/music/chiptone/halo/halocoversmall.jpg[/img] :Dawkins102:

No, that's a stupid question. Think about it, calculating pi for instance. It has no end thus no end can be processed, but then you don't have a processor with unlimited power. Nothing is infinite.

[QUOTE=xxxkiller;24191878]Quantum mechanics only sounds strange and logic defying, because most people make wrong assumptions about particles. Particles are not solid objects, instead they are more like ripples in water, instantly making the thought of a particle (ripple) being in more than one spot at the same time, less mind boggling. [/QUOTE] No. That isn't a good way of describing it at all. Also, related to the thread: No.