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for my own clarification purposes: why is finite vs infinite an issue? IMHO, i don’t believe we have truly infinite state unless we’re talking about mathematic
by rantwasp 6y ago
for my own clarification purposes: why is finite vs infinite an issue? IMHO, i don’t believe we have truly infinite state unless we’re talking about mathematical abstraction.
- jhrmnn 6y agoDon’t know if it is. But in computer science state machines are usually finite or at least discrete. Time evolution in quantum mechanics is certainly continuous, not discrete. Discrete are only some observables.
- rantwasp 6y agoi think we maybe are mixing measuring with the actual evolution of the state. you cannot observe a quantum system without altering its state. also, there is no such thing as an isolated quantum system. this is true even for classic mechanics but we are cool with it since the measurement error is insignificant compared to what we measure. i believe that the number of states a quantum system goes through is finite, albeit maybe very very large and the way we are treating it is based mostly on the tools we have not what is happening in reality.
- Dylan16807 6y agoIn practice it doesn't matter at all.