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I think the author didn't achieve his own goal: “Can you give me a simple, concrete explanation of how quantum computers work?” The explanation, even though it
by nico 17y ago
I think the author didn't achieve his own goal: “Can you give me a simple, concrete explanation of how quantum computers work?”
The explanation, even though it doesn't involve any complicated math or technical stuff, is long, convoluted and full of excuses of why there can't be a simple explanation.
- ntoshev 17y agoThe excuses are part of the explanation ;) I don't know why people expect to have metaphors from the macro world that can be readily applied to quantum mechanics - the whole particle-wave duality for example seems just an attempt to explain experimental results / equations with two partially broken complementary metaphors - just because this is all we have at hand in the everyday world...