Dear David, In your popular article on the multiverse you write: "...quantum computers offer fundamentally new capabilities, including absolutely secure...
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StokesEA@...
Sep 26, 2000 11:32 pm
Dear Fabric of Reality List Members, This is to request your suggestions of favorite readings on the many worlds concept, and related concepts, such as...
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Michael Nielsen
nielsen@...
Sep 27, 2000 11:01 am
... My two favourite technical references on quantum computation and quantum information are John Preskill's lecture notes ...
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Paul Matthew McDermott
tyromancer@...
Sep 27, 2000 11:02 am
I wondered whether this group had flat-lined. Glad that's not so! As for the book recommendation, I am making my way through Julian Brown's Minds, Machines and...
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Diane Dishman
didish@...
Sep 28, 2000 12:00 am
... readings on the many worlds ... computing, which would be ... annotated bibliographies ... I am new to this area, also. I love the sciences and am writing...
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Ilovegates123@...
Sep 28, 2000 12:01 am
The book that caused me to read more and more books on the subject(s) and gave me a fundamental understanding of the Quantum concepts was Gary Zukav's "The...
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StokesEA@...
Sep 28, 2000 12:18 am
I agree. Zukavs "Dancing Wu Li Masters" really makes physics accessible to lots of people, and is a fun read. Also, the thoughts about spiritual matters in...
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R Dugdale
racheledugdale@...
Sep 28, 2000 12:19 am
Hello everyone;
It's nice to see some life in this list again - I kind of thought it had
died out!
So far as books are concerned - obvious starting point is...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Sep 28, 2000 3:02 pm
... One of my favorite recent books is ``The physics of Quantum Information", edited by Dirk BOUWMEESTER, Artur EKERT, Anton ZEILINGER. Springer 2000. The...
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Michael Nielsen
nielsen@...
Sep 29, 2000 12:18 am
... Oops. I'll have to take a look at that; I've read some parts of the notes in detail, but skimmed over many sections, and missed that. (I also attended...
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Ilovegates123@...
Sep 29, 2000 1:07 am
In a message dated 9/28/00 5:18:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time, nielsen@... writes: << ... I read a question somewhere in one of David's papers...
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Chris Timpson
christopher.timpson@...
Sep 29, 2000 12:55 pm
... The fact that human beings live largely in a classical world (i.e. we don't experience superpositions directly) doesn't mean that we can't have knowledge...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Sep 29, 2000 4:50 pm
... Thank you for that interesting reference. I have loaded it and I have made a quick reading. (I am used to think that Everett + Gleason gives a shorter...
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Bacon, Michael
mbacon@...
Sep 30, 2000 1:40 am
I think that the key point is, as Chris says, that ". . . computations require . . . physical systems . . ." Calculations are physical processes. If our...
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Chris Timpson
christopher.timpson@...
Sep 30, 2000 2:24 pm
... Our world is not of course the classical world, but a quantum one. My comment `the fact that human beings live largely in a classical world **(i.e. we...
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Chris Timpson
christopher.timpson@...
Sep 30, 2000 2:25 pm
... I am indeed sympathetic to Everettian approaches, but consideration of quantum computing provides no argument at all for many-worlds as one is assuming the...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Sep 30, 2000 5:21 pm
... From a logical point of view I agree with you. The quantum computer does not add anything. The two slits are enough (as Deutsch illustrates himself). From...
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StokesEA@...
Sep 30, 2000 11:03 pm
I apologize in advance for my ignorance... How do we know the calculations take place? Is there a source that documents the calculations take place? Even...
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David Deutsch
david.deutsch@...
Sep 30, 2000 11:41 pm
... Suppose that you have a quantum computer running a chess-playing program that works by exhaustive search of all possible continuations of a given position...
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StokesEA@...
Oct 1, 2000 12:45 pm
Thank you for this lucid explanation; I'm now clear as to how we would confirm the calculations. Again, apologizing for my ignorance... Have such calculations...
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Ilovegates123@...
Oct 1, 2000 12:46 pm
Thank you all for your words of wisdom... Considering your replies and David's theory brought to mind something I read long ago (again cannot recall where)...
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Bacon, Michael
mbacon@...
Oct 1, 2000 12:47 pm
I apologize for the imprecision of language. As a lay person, I often express the complexities of quantum physics in confusing ways. Nevertheless, if I'm not...
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andy gibson
andy@...
Oct 1, 2000 7:02 pm
... From: Bacon, Michael To: 'Fabric-of-Reality@egroups.com' Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 5:30 AM Subject: RE: Reading List I apologize for the imprecision...
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Robin Green
greenrd@...
Oct 1, 2000 7:04 pm
... They're very different issues. The various competing claims about the number of dimensions in the universe (which refers to the three spatial dimensions, ...
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Gary S. Bekkum
gbekkum@...
Oct 1, 2000 10:09 pm
Since David did not address the new theories of large extra dimensions as solutions to the the gravity problem, I am wondering if he might at the least express...
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David Deutsch
david.deutsch@...
Oct 2, 2000 2:57 am
For instance, does the heliocentric theory of astronomical phenomena "require" the Earth actually to be moving? does it require the actual existence of other...
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Jussi Kantola
Jussi.Kantola@...
Oct 2, 2000 12:18 pm
... Einstein and the other chap were talking about the topology (think of it as geometry if you will) of space(-time). Depending on the theory, there are from...
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StokesEA@...
Oct 3, 2000 4:40 pm
Does IBM's announcement about quantum computers last month (see http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2000/0815quantum.html) mean that we know the calculations actually...
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Chris Timpson
christopher.timpson@...
Oct 3, 2000 4:41 pm
... Why the evolution of the system constitutes a calculation is explained by showing how the changes in the system as described by the equations of QM amount...
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Chris Timpson
christopher.timpson@...
Oct 3, 2000 4:41 pm
... The heliocentric theory states that the Earth and other planets move around the sun; it is quite clear what the theory is telling us about the world. ... ...
