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Re:Google plans to reach a Quantum Computing milestone befor... by 21 on Saturday April 22, 2017 @01:28PM (#14173583)
The LHC was planned 25 years before it was a reality. In fact, one of the first pictures put on the WWW when it was created at CERN was a schematic of the LHC:

https://home.cern/sites/home.web.cern.ch/files/image/update-...

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Re:Google plans to reach a Quantum Computing milestone befor... by delecti on Saturday April 22, 2017 @02:30PM (#14173930)
The LHC wasn't a scientific milestone, it was an engineering one. Using the LHC has led to milestones.
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Re:Google plans to reach a Quantum Computing milestone befor... by mr_overalls on Saturday April 22, 2017 @04:46PM (#14174668)
In many fields, for the past several decades, scientific progress has been inextricably bound with technical progress. New tools yield new experiments/discoveries.
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Re:Google plans to reach a Quantum Computing milestone befor... by 21 on Saturday April 22, 2017 @04:07PM (#14174469)
But this article also talks about an engineering milestone, there is no scientific milestone in going from a 6 qubit computer or a 49 qubit one.
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