On 8/8/2019 12:16 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 2:11 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
<[email protected]
<mailto:[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?
It's just a bigger, but still finite, vector space.
Brent
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/82efcf8a-3c24-9559-e68b-38d5e977720d%40verizon.net.
