[FRIAM] In the coldness of space...

[jon zingale]

In the coldest reaches of space, with what probability can I expect
there to be quantum Turing machines? A number of years ago, I ran across
a lecture by John Conway where he discusses the ubiquity of computers,
his thought experiment posits a large warehouse, full of transistors and
other electronic components, and a madman with a soldering iron. He then
goes on to say that for a sufficiently large warehouse, with probability
one, we should expect to find the universal machine.

I know that some on this list actually know about quantum computers, so
please let me know if this idea is terribly flawed somehow. To the extent
that such computers are out there, what would their architecture likely
be? In the meantime, I will continue to fantasize about the scaffoldings
that such computers may provide to the orderliness of what I can see.
Perhaps, this is covered by the Hooft paper on vacuum fluctuations?
I still need to read the paper.

Tags:
- Conway's madman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQUAwhhC8cU&t=2363s&ab_channel=IstrailLaboratory

- Formation of hydrocarbon chains in interstellar space:
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-constraining-chemistry-carbon-chain-molecules-space.html



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