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"This has got to stop." Popular science journalists always fall back on the simplified multi-universe explanation to explain quantum computing. I wish they wou
by jackfoxy 17y ago
"This has got to stop."
Popular science journalists always fall back on the simplified multi-universe explanation to explain quantum computing. I wish they would adopt another paradigm too, but in general I want to see a better quality of synopses of technical papers in popular journalism.
Getting back to the subject of the article... Scott Aaronson has always said the most interesting use of quantum computing would be to simulate natural processes. This may be the first significant achievement of that. (At least that I have heard of.)
- joe_the_user 17y agoThe many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is a consistent viewpoint that fits with the standard equations of Quantum Mechanics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation If it also happens to correspond to human intuition, I'm not sure exactly what the problem is.
- jackfoxy 17y agoI'm objecting to the dumbed-down version of the many worlds interpretation as an explaination of quantum computing because it gives the impression quantum computing can do things it can't actually do, like solve NP-complete problems efficiently, which is not currently theorized, let alone proven.
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- rw 17y ago"a task which is believed to be NP-hard" CITATION NEEDED