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All these explanations throw a bunch of things at you but don’t give you some succinct idea what it’s actually about I think that qm summarized in one sentence
by adamnemecek 6y ago
All these explanations throw a bunch of things at you but don’t give you some succinct idea what it’s actually about
I think that qm summarized in one sentence is the no-cloning theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem
The connections to linear logic are very interesting. One can make the connection form qm to constructive math.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago> All these explanations throw a bunch of things at you but don’t give you some succinct idea what it’s actually about After that sentence I was really expecting your Wikipedia link to point here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan
- Strilanc 6y ago> I think that qm summarized in one sentence is the no-cloning theorem The no-cloning theorem isn't unique to quantum mechanics. As with many quantum paradoxes, you can translate it into an equivalent statistical paradox. The classical version of the no-cloning theorem is the statement that there's no operation that transforms one sample from a Bernoulli distribution with unknown parameter p into two independent samples from that distribution. Since there's classical no-cloning, it's a very bad idea to define quantum mechanics as that-thing-with-a-no-cloning-theorem. That definition isn't able to distinguish quantum mechanics from statistics.