Re: Crypto and new computing strategies

[m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)]

Jim choate writes:
 > The problem w/ the whole N - NP approach 

P - NP
			
 >                                            is that is assumes that the QM
 > model behaves as we would expect it to, it doesn't. I think this is one of
 > those assumptions that are better left un-made. I have worked w/ enough QM
 > projects throug UT and Discovery Hall (Dr. Turner and Dr. Prigogine) that
 > I am not comfortable assuming the QM world even cares about the N or NP
 > issues we are debating.

It sounds as if you're claiming that mathematics as we know it does
not apply when dealing with quantum effects.  I suggest that this is a
strong statement, and I add that I see no reason to believe it.  At
the same time, I'm neither a mathematician or a physicist.

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