MIT Scientist Offers $100,000 to Anyone Who Can Prove Quantum Computing Is Impossible

[Jasun]

[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;34587752][B]Schrödinger's gift card[/B]
[I]Is it valid? The Expire date has been scratched off!
WHO WILL EVER KNOW[/I][/QUOTE]

Unless they try to redeem it.

[Helari]

[QUOTE=areolop;34583107]Why would it be impossible if we cannot even prove its possible.[/QUOTE]

This is like the answer to all religional debates.

[Kendra]

I think in the UK there's a 1.5 million pound prize for anyone that can hold anything in their hand that isn't of chemical nature.

That's a fun one too.

[Salm1z]

If it weren't possible we would not exist in this physical state. See our brain is a quantum computer.
Millions of years of evolution, and there are robots made out of water with quantum computers as their processors, processing this three-dimensional space you call reality, which is only electrical signals rendered by your brain.

[Flashcat]

It's impossible. Trust me, I'm an expert.

[DainBramageStud]

[QUOTE=Salm1z;34590908]If it weren't possible we would not exist in this physical state. See our brain is a quantum computer.
Millions of years of evolution, and there are robots made out of water with quantum computers as their processors, processing this three-dimensional space you call reality, which is only electrical signals rendered by your brain.[/QUOTE]

nope

[MountainWatcher]

[QUOTE=Camundongo;34588661]Well under the scientific method you can't outright prove something, only disprove it. If 99 experiments confirm your hypothesis, but 1 experiment does not, then you have a problem with your hypothesis (assuming that all 100 experiments were conducted accurately).[/QUOTE]

Disproving something is to prove the negative of something. So you can't disprove something either.

[Zeke129]

Proving a negative isn't possible to do so this is a rather unscientific contest that these scientists are holding

this has been said already I see

[MountainWatcher]

Proving a negative is very much so possible. If you can prove a positive, you are proving the negative of the negative of that thing.
You just have to keep the same standards for "disproof" and you do for "proof". If 99% of the results match for proof, then 99% of the results must also match for disproof.

[OnDemand]

$1,000,000 or nothing!

[Soleeedus]

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[Daniel Smith]

[QUOTE=Soleeedus;34592351]What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?[/QUOTE]

13.9 = Zqw times the width of 44 particle exatrons = Impossibility.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=Soleeedus;34592351]What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?[/QUOTE]

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