RE: Does God play dice?

From: Jesse Mazer <lasermazer.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:08:09 -0500

Tom Caylor wrote:

>
>Saibal Mitra wrote:
>
>>http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/18/12/2/1
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>Not that there aren't enough discussions going on already, I wanted to know
>what people think about Paul Davies' argument using Seth Lloyd's
>calculations, concluding that a quantum computer can never be built? I
>suppose there are people here that believe that the multiverse makes the
>quantum computer possible regardless of what Davies says, but if so, why?
>
>Here's a post that sums up some of it and provides some links:
>
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAS-Group/message/456

Some quick criticisms of Davies' argument can be found in the comments of
this blog entry by a physicist working on quantum computation:

http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1142#comments

Jesse
Received on Fri Jan 06 2006 - 14:33:36 PST

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