Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem? - SlashdotPosted by kdawson on Thursday August 09, 2007 @01:15PM from the too-bad-about-the-noise dept. 6 writes to let us know that two optical researchers have proposed, as a thought experiment, a novel idea for solving the traveling salesman problem. From the abstract: We introduce an optical method based on white light interferometry in order to solve the well-known NP-complete traveling salesman proble
