X-Message-Number: 21500 From: Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 16:34:42 EST Subject: Enzyme computer --part1_a5.37a6ce5a.2bb76b72_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Quantum computers have a tremendous potential capacity, their big problem in to keep their computing processing isolated from exterior effects and so protect their state superposition. It has been pointed out (see: Mathematical Physics and Life, A. Patel, quant-ph/0202022 at arXiv on xxx.lanl.gov p.17) that enzymes work precisely by stabilizing a quantum state superposition between an initial and a final chemical product. So, why not use enzymes in a quantum computer? The enzyme would have to shield from outer influences a rather big molecule, may be a DNA stretch able to hold many qubits, there is no natural enzyme able to do that, it would have to be specially produced. A computer must define the protected area shape then another software must find out the polypeptide sequence giving the right folding. Making the corresponding gene and including it in a bacterium is then a simple task. I think the problem is with the computing power invested at start to define the enzyme, may be a distributed project could do it?... Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_a5.37a6ce5a.2bb76b72_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21500