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Indeed, it's not on the near horizon. I found this article illuminating:

The Case Against Quantum Computing - https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-agains...



> I argue that they can’t. In the physical world, continuous quantities (be they voltages or the parameters defining quantum-mechanical wave functions) can be neither measured nor manipulated exactly. That is, no continuously variable quantity can be made to have an exact value, including zero. To a mathematician, this might sound absurd, but this is the unquestionable reality of the world we live in, as any engineer knows.

Wasn't this problem addressed just recently? https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/The-g...


Dyakonov‘s opinions have been rebutted by many prominent quantum information scientists and physicists. To put it charitably, his arguments don’t agree with the consensus. Check out [1] as an example criticism of his writing.

[1] https://scirate.com/arxiv/1903.10760


The article is indeed interesting. I find this one addressing it https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/01/09/the-case-against-the-case...




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