Its been a while since I studied Davies's arguments, but I remembered
thinking at the time that what Davies was proposing was in
contradiction with standard QM, hence amenable to experimental
falsification.
Cheers
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:08:09PM -0500, Jesse Mazer wrote:
>
> Tom Caylor wrote:
>
> >
> >Saibal Mitra wrote:
> >
> >>http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/18/12/2/1
> >
> >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
>
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