Its been a while since I studied Davies's arguments, but I remembered thinking at the time that what Davies was proposing was in contradiction with standard QM, hence amenable to experimental falsification.
Cheers On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:08:09PM -0500, Jesse Mazer wrote: > > Tom Caylor wrote: > > > > >Saibal Mitra wrote: > > > >>http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/18/12/2/1 > > > >Not that there aren't enough discussions going on already, I wanted to > >know what people think about Paul Davies' argument using Seth Lloyd's > >calculations, concluding that a quantum computer can never be built? I > >suppose there are people here that believe that the multiverse makes the > >quantum computer possible regardless of what Davies says, but if so, why? > > > >Here's a post that sums up some of it and provides some links: > > > >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAS-Group/message/456 > > Some quick criticisms of Davies' argument can be found in the comments of > this blog entry by a physicist working on quantum computation: > > http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1142#comments > > Jesse > -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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