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Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer?

From rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer?
Date 2016-10-17 20:49 -0400
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On 10/17/2016 8:23 PM, hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 6:14:02 PM UTC-7, Bernd Paysan wrote:
>> Thus Tesla based his work on (back then) very recent theories and
>> discoveries, and of course a lot of people didn't understand
>> anything. He was a genius in practical engineering, but the theory
>> was already there, and tested: he just applied that theory.
>
> This is typical Bernd Paysan --- belittles everybody's work --- Tesla
> actually made significant contributions to people's understanding of
> electricity, especially in regard to alternating current.

> AC is used to cancel out inductance,

What???  Ok, your license to even discuss science has been revoked!!!


> allowing electricity to be transported long
> distances, although we still lose something like 1/3 of the energy
> generated in our power plants.

AC vs. DC has nothing to do with canceling inductance or whatever else 
your mind is thinking.  It is the simple fact that with AC it is easy to 
change the voltage and therefore current while this is not so easy in 
DC.  AC uses transformers (notice the name?) to transform lower voltage 
AC to higher voltage AC and back again.  The advantage is that at a 
higher voltage the resistive losses are lower because of the lower 
current.  AC has its own set of problem but they are easier to work 
with... until recently.  Now that practical circuits to transform DC 
voltages exist high voltage DC power lines have become a reality.  I 
have not read up on it to see what the advantages and disadvantages are, 
but they are being used.


> Our "understanding" of electricity could better be desribed as
> "familiarity" with electricity --- nobody actually knows how
> electricity works --- inductance is a big WTF for any student of
> electricity (the analogy about water flowing through a pipe is okay
> for resistance and current, but not for inductance).

Lol, you must have flunked physics.  A simple mechanical system of a 
mass, spring and a damper use exactly the same equations to describe the 
motion as the voltage in an AC circuit with inductance, capacitance and 
resistance.  This is actually a good analogy to learn from.


> I read one physicist who said that reality is actually nothing like
> the physical world that we experience with our sight, hearing and
> touch. We don't know what reality is like --- we don't even know what
> it would be like to know what it is like.

Yeah, people say all sorts of stuff.

-- 

Rick C

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Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? Manuel Rodriguez <aa5@gmx.net> - 2016-10-16 05:30 -0700
  Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-10-16 15:05 +0200
    Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? Manuel Rodriguez <aa5@gmx.net> - 2016-10-16 06:44 -0700
      Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-10-16 18:34 +0200
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    Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2016-10-16 17:16 -0400
      Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2016-10-17 01:13 +0000
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        Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-17 17:23 -0700
          Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-17 20:49 -0400
            Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2016-10-17 21:38 -0700
              Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2016-10-18 05:31 -0700
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                Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 19:18 -0400
                Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-10-20 18:53 -0500
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                Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2016-10-27 19:14 -0400
            Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-18 01:11 -0700
              Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-18 05:15 -0400
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                Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-22 22:06 -0700
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                Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-23 01:11 -0700
                Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-23 12:36 +0100
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                Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-23 15:41 -0700
                Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2016-11-05 00:48 +0000
                Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-11-04 19:37 -0700
              Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? dunno <dunno@dunno.dunno> - 2016-10-19 22:13 +0000
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                Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-20 21:56 -0700
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  Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-16 18:05 -0700
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        Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? lawrencedo99@gmail.com - 2016-10-17 18:11 -0700
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                Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-10-18 18:56 +0200
                Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2016-10-21 22:02 +0000
                Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-10-22 16:15 +0000
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      Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2016-10-16 19:37 -0700
        Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-17 00:18 -0400
      Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-17 15:39 -0700
        Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-17 19:24 -0400
          Re: Did Nikola Tesla invented the Quantum computer? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-17 18:21 -0700
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