On Thursday, August 8, 2019, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 8/8/2019 2:18 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 4:15 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> 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]> 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. >> > > What happens when a qubit in superposition of 10^1000 states > > > A qubit only has two-dimensions in it's Hilbert space. > Good catch. What happens to the atom as it interacts successively with each of the ~3000 qubits? Jason > > > Brent > > interacts with a photon, and that photon hits an atom in a measurement > device, and then another photon interacts with the measurement device and > then an atom in a cell of the retina of the physicists right eye? > > Does QM predict that the atom in the physicists retina will also be > described by a bigger vector space? > > 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/83eca38f-b49d-c60f-dd4e-1065cc0b2e75%40verizon.net > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/83eca38f-b49d-c60f-dd4e-1065cc0b2e75%40verizon.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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%2BBCJUh%3Dn%3D%2B_-JHqgN6-8yrp%2BHd3bTuK-i9OAuh%3DaHs6aepjrw%40mail.gmail.com.
