Publication Date
6-2020
Abstract
The recent successes of quantum computing encouraged many researchers to search for other unconventional physical phenomena that could potentially speed up computations. Several promising schemes have been proposed that will -- hopefully -- lead to faster computations in the future. Some of these schemes -- similarly to quantum computing -- involve using events from the micro-world, others involve using large-scale phenomena. If some civilization used micro-world for computations, this will be difficult for us to notice, but if they use mega-scale effects, maybe we can notice these phenomena? In this paper, we analyze what possible traces such megacomputing can leave -- and come up with rather surprising conclusions.
Comments
Technical Report: UTEP-CS-20-60