Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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What does this to have to with LLNL and LANL? Why post this?
Several of these centers where just announced, today LANL is one of the core groups with Microsoft and Oak Ridge.
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum/2020/08/26/new-research-collaboration-u-s-national-laboratories-microsoft-universities-national-quantum-initiative/
Microsoft is one of the five core founding members of one of the newly-formed centers, the Quantum Science Center (QSC), along with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and Purdue University. In addition to the Quantum Science Center, Microsoft is also a partner in the Q-NEXT center, led by Argonne National Laboratory and joined by Stanford Linear Accelerator Cente
8/27/2020 2:04 PM
One could try quantum computing with NIF. The decoherence time might a tad short but hey NIF can do anything.
8/29/2020 5:08 PM
Not my field but I was wondering if things like gravity waves would also induce decoherence? I would guess that there must be some kind of "sea" of residual gravity waves from the big bang that give some average level background of "gravitational noise". Sure it would be very small but could still couple to quantum system and induce some decoherence. I am sure someone has thought about this so maybe the effect is so small you could never hope to see in any realistic time frame.
8/30/2020 12:14 PM
Quantum gravity is the next hot thing in experimental science. Watch the labs belly up to this new trough.