Quantum Mechanics is quite sound - see QED - Richard Feynman. I guess you mean Quantum Computing.
There are government-backed projects that are classified and there are many things that have particular potential that are taken out of public purview. There are a lot of things built with military funding or corporate funding and then taken over and privatized and not made public. Here is another project - note the way it is funded and its publicized goals http://www.iter.org/proj/itermission Donna Y dy...@sympatico.ca On 2013-10-18, at 5:23 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > My take on this is that quantum mechanics is essentially a counter > intelligence attack on knowledge of physics. It makes sense to me that > - to keep people from engineering nuclear bombs - we would put some > misinformation into the educational materials people have that would > lead them to be able to construct one. > > Of course I might be wrong about that. But we certainly seem to be > investing a lot of money into making sure that academics are... > well... academic, and so specialized that we do not accomplish much of > anything useful. > > Whether that is something achieved intentionally through careful > planning or whether it's pure happenstance achieved through ignorance > and community effort is not something I am qualified to judge. > > But this kind of semi-paranoid, semi-humorous narrative should give > you something of an idea of where my head is at when I write this. > > See... back in the 90s, I remember a presentation on possibilities for > building optical computing devices. It was really basic and > straightforward stuff, with a few problems relating to not having > electronic computing devices that would work in the 3-4Ghz range for > their clocks. We had pretty much everything we needed then to start > building counters and other basic logic devices, but we didn't have > anything fast enough to hook up to the slowest speeds we could make > photonic circuits work at. > > And shortly after that, we were hugely overbuilding our optical > network infrastructure. And then all of a sudden everything collapsed. > I remember reading news claiming that we did not need anywhere near > the capacity which had been built. And then it ceased to even be news > (at least in the contexts where I spend my time). > > And, now, we have Obama who was a huge fan of whistleblowers coming > into presidency and his administration has been attacking > whistleblowers left and right - even going way above and beyond what > any past presidency has done. And, we can see from the recent > government shutdown that he's an incredibly strong willed and > dedicated guy. And, we can see from his family that he's a very sane > and intelligent individual. > > So... anyways... > > My take is that we do have a huge optical computing infrastructure > already built. And that our government is so twisted around its own > structure that it can't admit, yet, to having built it, nor what its > capabilities are. > > And I think I know why. And I'm trying to work up enough courage to > express those thoughts. > > And, who knows, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I just need to figure out how > to express myself coherently, despite my fears. > > Or maybe someone else can. (I've been seeing some news and events > lately that corroborates some of my hunches and I've been seeing > fairly rapid contradictory news for some of my other hunches - and by > contradictory I mean evidence that I had misquanitified some things.) > > See... another possibility is that our government is so incompetent > that it has only been pretending like it has doing something useful > with all of the resources we have been giving it for this kind of > purpose. > > Anyways, my gut feeling is that there are a lot of us working on this tangle. > > But how do we distinguish between counterintelligence and real stupidity? > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
