Do we know anything interesting about the QC equivalent of:

Notes from Richard Schroeppel (rcs(AT)CS.Arizona.EDU) concerning A057241
Tue, 9 Jan 2001

I’ll offer the sequence 0,0,3,6,10, less-than-or-equal 23.
“Circuit cost of hardest boolean functions of N inputs.
Metric: 2-input And-gates cost 1, Not is free,
Fanout is free, Inputs are free, no feedback allowed.”

The next term may be pretty hard to compute.
The 10 took several weeks of Alpha time, and the following term
is thousands (millions?) of times harder. (There are more than half a
million functions of five variables; you have to locate a function
that requires an alleged maximum gate count, do the search to
show it can’t be done in fewer gates, and supply no-worse circuits
for all the other functions.)

Fundamental science aside, the LHC is a highly public global-scale, highly federative, global-scale enterprise.

From this federative point of view, the LHC is already functioning admirably. This is a good sign for the future … because a planet with ten billion people on it requires many such enterprises.

It is therefore interesting (to me) to inquire “How is it that this very good thing has come about?” This IMHO is a very fruitful question to ask.

As for answering that question … well … IMHO we are still pretty far from having a satisfactory answer. So for the present maybe we had better just enjoy our good luck.

There is a little bit of “zen” in the above point of view. Maybe the real breakthrough of the LHC is already in our hands?

Throw the switch! The chance of the LHC destroying the world is zero, for crying out loud! And if I’m wrong, so be it. I’d rather die asking questions and finding answers than die from stupidity and ignorance, freezing to death in the dark.

For instance, I assume something like a neutrino could be created. Since it’s stable, where does it go? Doesn’t it just fly off into space?

What I’m getting at is, if micro black holes were created, and they didn’t decay, where would they go? Sure they might briefly interact with some with earth matter. But wouldn’t they have some huge momentum imparted upon them from the collision, and so zip off to space never to be seen again? And if so, why worry about it?

Scott

That would mean that the World would be sucked to nothingness which is in no way compatible with the Word of God laid down in Revelations.
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Unless of course there are by some strange coincidence, 144000 people working at CERN.