On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 5:00 PM Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > > On 8/21/2018 2:40 PM, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > >> If I start a 200 qubit quantum computer at time = 0, and 100 microseconds >> later it has produced a result that required going through 2^200 = 1.6 x >> 10^60 = states (more states than is possible for 200 things to go through >> in 100 microseconds even if they changed their state every Plank time >> (5.39121 x 10^-44 seconds), then physically speaking it **must** have >> been simultaneous. I don't see any other way to explain this result. How >> can 200 things explore 10^60 states in 10^-4 seconds, when a Plank time is >> 5.39 x 10^-44 seconds? >> > > It's no more impressive numerically than an electron wave function picking > out one of 10^30 silver halide molecules on a photographic plate to > interact with (which is also non-local, aka simultaneous). > > Well consider the 1000 qubit quantum computer. This is a 1 followed by 301 zeros. This is not only over a googol^2 times the number of silver halide molecules in your plate, but more than a googol times the 10^80 atoms in the observable universe. What is it, in your mind, that is able to track and consistently compute over these 10^301 states, in this system composed of only 1000 atoms? > Also note that you can only read off 200bits of information (c.f. Holevo's > theorem). > > True, but that is irrelevant to the number of intermediate states necessary for the computation that is performed to arrive at the final and correct answer. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
