Origin of Life (Pt2) (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 23:23 (5442 days ago) @ David Turell


> > It is also this fact that has even some biochemists here at UNO stating that biochemical complexity is going to be solved by mathematicians and physicists, not by biochemists. (Hence the work already underway on our cluster.)
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> Your description sounds great.-I omitted how much time I think it would take. -This is a big assumption I'm about to make: If Moore's law holds for quantum computing as it does with our current models, then every 18 months the power and cost of quantum technology should double and halve respectively. Right now the best quantum computer in the lab was recently able to factor every prime up to the number 15 before losing stability. If it doubles every 18 months then it will follow an exponential growth. Most of the algorithms we need to study the chemistry already exist: Human's have been doing them for close to 60-70 years. -I'm lazy, but we're at 2^4 right now. Every 18 months you add another to the exponent, so 2^5, 3yrs from now 2^6. This means that the complexity of what we can compute with it increases at the same rate. I'd say we'd be able to start getting meaningful results in chemistry in 30yrs. (Maybe earlier, if we learn better ways to manipulate quantum chips.)-In short, we're on the verge of a scientific revolution in information processing, and it's going to be even bigger than digital computing. It's Ray Kurzweil's singularity.

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