On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 2:11 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 8/8/2019 6:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > Let us use “superposition of state” instead. The word “world” has too > > much metaphysical implicit connotations. > > In that case, if the computer run a superposition similar to the > > initial calculation in Shor algorithm (before taking the final Fourier > > transform on all superposed results), decoherence means that all > > computations are done on the superposed state. That is the massive > > parallelism, than we can exploit through the final Fourier Transform > > and measurement. > > It's "massive parallelism" only in that the state vector's evolution > simultaneously has components along many different basis vectors. It's > like saying a trajectory is massively parallel because it simultaneously > has components in three dimensions. > > 3 is not very big. What about 10^1000? Speaking of big numbers, this one is a bit of a mind bender: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUhq5zaEu0JCEPck%2Bj87Ht4DtVcttoB3OFFt8x91zh4sMA%40mail.gmail.com.
