From: "Al seckel" To: "Jeffrey Epstein" Subject: Your latest blog, but I had to post something in your name, which uses it repeatedly. I just knocked it out, and of course, is in my voice, and based a lot on my extensive conversations with Feynman on this subject in the early 80s. Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:16:31 +0000 Jeffrey Epstein on Quantum Computing The late theoretical physicist Richard Feynman stated, "It is a part of the adventure of science to try to find a limitation in all directions and to stretch a human imagination as far as possible everywhere. Although at every stage it has looked as if such an activity was absurd and useless, it often turns out at least not to be useless." Feynman stated this in a memorial lecture he gave in 1985 titled "Computing Machines in the Future." It is perfectly appropriate to start my blog on quantum computing with a quotation from Feynman, as he is universally regarded as the "father of the quantum computer." Feynman had profound and prescient insights into the physics of quantum computing as well as the field of nanotechnology. It should be noted that Feynman, however, wasn't the first to think of an idea of a quantum computer, such a notion was explored previously by various physicists and computer scientists in the mid 1970's and early 1980's, such as Charles Bennett, Paul Benioff, and David Deutsch. However, Feynman was notorious for not reading the work of others, and tending to work out first principles on his own. Feynman knew that Moore's Law indicated that if technology were applied to the size of circuitry on silicon chips, eventually one would reach a point when classical physics would no longer apply, and one would have to work in accordance with the principles of quantum mechanics. It was in 1982 when Feynman first came up with a theoretical approach of how computation could be achieved on a quantum mechanical level. He first approached this problem by establishing what were the limits