[MURG] At light speed

[Keith Wiley]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Joseph M. Graham Jr. wrote:

> Hello, murg,
> Once we make the  Photonic Brain Computer It would be able to cure any Human disease by running all possible
>  Combinations untill the computational solution is  found.  At light speed it will not take to long.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Joseph M. Graham Jr.

My desktop computer uses electronics that run at a fair fraction of
lightspeed and it takes a long time just to open a new Netscape window.
What makes you think the solution to an illness can be calculated in a
short period of time?  What if it is NP-complete?  Then by definition it
would take a looooooooooooooong time.

________________________________________________________________________
Keith Wiley                                kwiley at cs.unm.edu
http://www.unm.edu/~keithw                 http://www.mp3.com/KeithWiley

"Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson,
that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to
aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy."
                                           --  Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland
________________________________________________________________________