Quantum Bubbles and Cold Fusion

This is a bucket of liquid helium poured on all the quantum shills and hypermaniacs.

The Quantum Hype Bubble Is About To Burst

Having a computer that requires a temperature colder than outer space is not a huge selling point. And as she amusingly notes, no miniaturisation is even possible as such devices already operate at the wavelength of an electron.

Quantum woo is incredibly tedious and should be projected into another universe - along with the person who espouses it. It is quite simple to disentangle yourself from such a bore: Just Say No!

Glad to have found such a sardonic take on a topic where the hype is far greater than the progress.

When electricity was first discovered, it wasn't really electricity at all. We could charge things and then discharge them; all fine for shocking people, but there was no way to use it to do meaningful work - unless shocking people was your profession. When a means of storage was invented - a battery - then the flow of electricity could be controlled to do something useful.

I just did a random search for "cold fusion quantum computing" - and after some mis-direction by a seemingly popular propaganda engine, found this: Qubits, beams and fusion. I'm not writing a dissertation, so only wanted one example.

The idea of a qubit is a bit of theoretical physics; the physical system that best represents such a qubit has not yet been found! Babbage's Engine was mechanical, the earliest computers were electro-mechanical; we then discovered semiconductors. What strikes me as potentially interesting is using the quantum effects of cold fusion for the storage of information - both require quantum tunneling. Zero Kelvin computing is likely a dead-end but helps define the problems with coherence, decoherence and the veracity of information.

This, however, means bringing to light (or keeping obfuscated) a controversial topic such as cold fusion, which proved that quantum transformations could take place by adjusting the input frequencies rather than thermal energy. A simple formula that should really be as famous as Einstein's mass-energy is E=hf. But I digress...