In consideration of the Georg Cantor's view about the importance of asking the right questions:
“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
but,
“Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)”
― Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensees
And so it is with quantum computing, a theoretic framework standing surely on the shoulders of the pioneers of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics and which opens doors to answering ever more computationally complex algorithms. Mathematical abstraction is truly effective for finding the right questions to ask.
- DLW
