On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Donna Y <dy...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Quantum Mechanics is quite sound - see QED - Richard Feynman. I guess you > mean Quantum Computing.
Some of it is, yes. That part seems very simple. Some of it seems, to me, to be nonsense. Maybe I will get it some day, maybe I will not. Some of that is just my ignorance. Some of that seems like other people's. That said, I think that applications of a theory are much more convincing evidence of the theory's validity than books on a theory. This is why I dropped out of college. > There are government-backed projects that are classified and there are many > things that have particular potential that are taken out of public purview. Of course. But if you understand the structure of the people involved you can get a sense for what kinds of things that secret projects are up to by the structure of available information. This relates to the trap that China is in, with their censorship program. They've recently had to start censoring the word "censorship", it has gotten so rough for them. > There are a lot of things built with military funding or corporate funding > and then taken over and privatized and not made public. Yes, certainly, and thus the recent revelations about NSA outsourcing. What do you imagine the rest of the intelligence budget goes for? Is it only to hire people to sit on their hands and write power point presentations about private outsourcing? > Here is another project - note the way it is funded and its publicized goals > > http://www.iter.org/proj/itermission Note also that the 120 GHz frequency listed as a strategic resource in a rather boring military document something over 10 years ago is getting into the range where a physics paper I read once listed as being particularly significant for interactions involving the weak nuclear force. Of course, it's quite possible that the secret documents contain no more information than the unclassified documents, and that all these bright people being hired by the defense department just sit on their hands all day watching porn or something. Wouldn't that be funny? And it would certainly justify the classified treatment of those budgets. That said, yes, one of the big issues with fusion reactions on a scale smaller than a Sun is: how do you keep the energy of the reaction from preventing the reaction from taking place. The techniques I've heard of are: inertial confinement (basically: a nuclear bomb), magnetic confinement (but then how do you pump fuel through the confinement field?), and a technique involving lasers and mirrors that seems to be fairly new and surprisingly successful. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
