Chapter 759 New Questions
Among Duke's team, there is a special researcher from Canada. Although he is not very famous now, in Duke's view, he is one of the most cutting-edge scientists in the world today to study quantum computing.
Because Mr. Gillard Pitt used niobium metal to create a special equipment seven or eight years ago. When the equipment was running at ultra-low temperature, Gillard Pitt claimed that he had successfully achieved some simple and controllable quantum effects. However, Gillard Pitt didn't know that he had made niobium metal have superconducting effects at ultra-low temperatures, which made the current appear in a very strange mixed state of clockwise, counterclockwise and reverse-wise at the same time when the metal was conducting electricity. This state was very similar to quantum operation, but this was not real quantum computing.
Duke knew that Mr. Gillard Pitt was close to the edge of real quantum computing device manufacturing, but his implementation method was not ideal enough. To be precise, the manufacturing process and materials were still far from the description given by Bileme. However, there was no doubt that Gileme's research in this area has been far ahead of the world, because there are many special performance materials in the star field where Bileme is located, which are currently not found on Earth.
If Duke hadn't had the description of the material characteristics of real quantum computers given by Bileme, Duke wouldn't know where to start. According to the existing quantum computing technology level on Earth, Duke could only try and make mistakes from many possibilities, and did not know how much time it would take to find what he really needed.
But since Gillard Pitt has found something similar to real quantum computing, it means he is close to the brink of success.
Of course Duke would not let such scientists go. Fortunately, although Gillard Pitt was once famous, the scientist who claimed to invent "real" quantum computers a few years ago also attracted a lot of attention. Two bold venture capital companies invested tens of millions of dollars in this regard, allowing Gillard Pitt to set up a Quantum Computing company to develop what he called quantum computers.
If Gillard Pitt could really create quantum computers, even if they look ugly, as long as they can realize real quantum computing to solve some practical problems, venture capital companies will naturally gain huge benefits from it. Unfortunately, Gillard Pitt said it too early. The things he invented can only be close to simulating some features of quantum computing, but it has never been realized for solving real problems, such as floating-point operations or artificial intelligence reasoning. Therefore, people quickly discovered that Gillard Pitt was exaggerating. In fact, what he invented could not do anything in reality.
Venture capital companies are not stupid either. They see no hope. After investing tens of millions of dollars in the first place and not having substantial results, they will stop. QuantumComputing lost its continued investment in venture capital, and soon could not maintain it. This is a very expensive research field. Not to mention tens of millions of dollars a year, even hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars are not much.
Lack of necessary scientific research funds, Gillard Pitt not only could not keep the research team he worked hard to run, but even the laboratory could not be maintained. Until now, Gillard Pitt is at the end of his life and no one cares about it.
Without results and without funds, Gillard Pitt resigned from his original university position. His temper has become more and more strange, so Gillard Pitt couldn't find any ideal job and could only stay at home with meager social welfare funds. Fortunately, he could not starve to death with Canadian social welfare.
However, the life of living like this is obviously not the life that Gillard Pitt wants.
Therefore, when the SAL company was ordered to invite him, Gillard Pitt realized that his opportunity had come. SAL company is at its peak now. Even people like Gillard Pitt who rarely pay attention to the business world also know the company's strong strength. What made Gillard Pitt very moved was that the visitor promised him that he would receive unimaginable research expenses and even had the opportunity to study with Dr. Duke.
These two points almost instantly defeated Gillard Pitt's psychological defense line, because not only did his career have hope of making a comeback, but the ability to make these requests also showed that Dr. Duke values him as a researcher. With Duke's status in the computer and physics circles, such an invitation shows that Dr. Duke is very optimistic about his research results.
Therefore, in terms of material treatment, Gillard Pitt did not make much demand. SAL invested US$20 million to directly buy out all equity and intellectual property rights of Gillard Pitt's QuantumComputing Company. At the same time, QuantumComputing Company was moved to China as the main body of SAL's research on quantum computers. Gillard Pitt was hired as chief scientist to continue to study the special quantum effects of niobium metals or similar rare metals under ultra-low temperature superconducting.
For Gillard Pitt, except for the relocation of a new place, there is no other condition. The best research environment, the best research team, and there is almost no idle research funding. As long as Gillard Pitt reported, the research plan approved by Duke, Cai Siqiang can spend as much money as possible. Now, in terms of the company's abundant cash flow, no one in the world can catch up with SAL, although last year, only invested hundreds of billions of yuan to the China-Africa Group to mine African mineral resources.
Although the part Gillard Pitt is responsible for will be to manufacture one of the most core parts of quantum computers, and the core chips of quantum computing will be born from Gillard Pitt's achievements in the future, only such a thing can not realize real quantum computing. Due to the completely different characteristics of quantum computing and silicon chips, the quantum computing theory is now conceived by referring to the calculation method of silicon chips with binary as the core, and fundamentally speaking, it is wrong.
Duke is convinced that even if someone makes something exactly the same as Gillard Pitt in the future, if there is no revolutionary new polymorphic computing control algorithm, it will be impossible to exert the special super computing performance of quantum computers. And in today's world, except Duke, there is no other Earthling who masters this new special control algorithm under polymorphic conditions. This is a ready-made result Duke got from Bileme. Duke doesn't have to worry that someone will develop new things that truly have quantum computing power before him.
After Gillard Pitt was in place, he quickly re-enlisted his old subordinates. He is now able to offer irresistible material treatment, and there is also a research environment that is also irresistible for a researcher who really wants to achieve something. His old subordinates came.
After reconstructing the research team and experimental environment, Duke and Gillard Pitt conducted in-depth research directions with Gillard Pitt. Although Gillard Pitt had a very high estimate of Duke, during the discussion, Gillard Pitt found that he still underestimated this young man with the title of the No. 1 genius in the science and technology world. His basic knowledge in the field of quantum computing is respectable. Many classic quantum knowledge can be said casually as if it were aware of. What surprised Gillard Pitt even more was that Dr. Duke was also very in-depth in the research on materials that realize quantum effects. The characteristics that Duke proposed should have for materials that implement quantum computing made Gillard Pitt refreshed.
If we follow these characteristics, the object Gillard Pitt is going to study is not only niobium metals, but also a series of rare metals with similar characteristics to study. Perhaps the future way out is to find some combination from these rare metals, so as to have the material properties described by Duke.
So Gillard Pitt was very inspired after communicating with Duke. Based on his research experience and the unique inspiration and intuition of some scientists, a few months later, Gillard Pitt led his team to find several alloys with better characteristics than individual niobium metals. After re-made a device of that year, Gillard Pitt found that the performance was indeed several times higher than the same equipment made of niobium metals.
This result greatly encouraged Gillard Pitt, and at the same time verified that some of the forward-looking assumptions proposed by Duke were highly guided. Gillard Pitt quickly expanded the scope and scale of his research. However, when Gillard Pitt published the list of materials for the research, SAL's procurement department was stunned. Since Gillard Pitt studied very rare metal varieties, some things and even the annual output of the world is estimated to be only a few hundred kilograms. Now they are still only using some special research from certain countries, and the market cannot purchase them at all.
The SAL procurement department quickly fed this information back to Cai Siqiang's ears, and Cai Siqiang immediately fed it back to Duke. Although Duke was busy doing a computer simulation of a special quantum computing mode at this time, Gillard Pitt's research was also crucial, so he immediately found Qin Tairan and searched the country, only found a part. According to the introduction of the mineral resources department, almost no rare metals were found in China.
Most of the places found now are in Africa, among which Congo is a country with a large number of these rare metals.
When Duke's demand was elevated to the level of the Military Commission by Qin Tairan, these military commissioners suddenly discovered that Africa is more important than originally imagined. Even the quantum computers studied by Duke were not even aware of this. However, after Qin Tairan explained that if the development was successful, a computer would be more powerful than all the computers in the country, no one could sit still. What does computer computing power mean? The amazing development in military industry in recent years is the best proof.
Therefore, the Military Commission decided to implement a top-secret plan to fully control the rare mineral resources of the Congo, led by the General Staff Intelligence Department.
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