Re: Remember that time I asked for evidence that atheists exist?

}On 9/1/2026 12:31 PM, R Kym Horsell wrote:
}>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization_records
}>> I remember, on numerous occasions, reading & hearing news articles &
}>> stories that said, "Encryption is dead", because, here soon, quantum
}>> computing will reach a point where it can break encryption keys.  I was
}>> not a believer then, and I am not a believer now; in fact, I have never
}>> been a believer in quantum computers doing anything in the way of
}>> significant, meaning computation.
}> LOL.
}>    IBM quantum computer solves classically intractable problem in 15 minutes
}>    ScienceDaily, 31 Aug 2026
}>    IBM researchers say a 70-qubit experiment has crossed a major quantum
}>    computing threshold, solving an otherwise ...
}...
}As for the Casimir Effect, what you're describing is also known as 
}zero-point energy:
}https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy
}That's all bunk, also.
}Dawn

LOL.

One of my infamous witticisms used to be:

	Conservative thinking only predicts the past.

But over the past few years I think there's enough evidence accumulating
(thank-you generation III of social media) to update that to:

	Conservative thinking barely predicts the past.

-- 
Top reasons why Mr Stephenson's "railway" will never work:
(1) The project will drain the King's treasury.
(2) The noise will scare the cows and sour their milk.
(3) At 37 mph air will be sucked out of the passengers' lungs.
(4) The vibration will injure passengers.
(5) The common people will be encouraged to come to London.
-- Arthur Wellesley  Duke of Wellington, c1828