On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:04 PM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 1:49 AM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 2:59 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 2:15 PM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> You say this is merely a way of representing what is happening (and >>>> implying what I suppose to be happening is not really real), but then this >>>> line of reasoning fails to give any account of how Shor's algorithm factors >>>> the 1000 bit semi-prime. >>>> >>> >>> We have explained how Shor's algorithm factors the 1000 bit semi-prime: >>> by rotations in the 2^1000dimension Hilbert space -- all one world. >>> >> >> I could, perhaps, expand a bit here. You are the ones who swallow Bruno's >> idea that the whole of physics is supported by the computations of the >> universal dovetailer in arithmetic (platonia). Why do you then find it so >> hard to believe that the computations to factorize large semi-prime numbers >> cannot all be maintained in a high-dimensional abstract Hilbert space? The >> computations there are not all that complicated -- just simple rotations of >> a vector in a 2^n dimensional space. >> >> > I don't find it hard to believe that the computations can be maintained in > a high-dimensional Hilbert space. But I find it hard to believe that this > high-dimensional Hilbert space can maintain the many components of the > qubits but not also the many components of all the particles in the world > and wider environment after other particles interact with those qubits. > Nothing in the theory says the may components are eliminated, so why should > I believe that they are? Why do you? > Coherence is lost when the system interacts with randomised degrees of freedom. It can be regarded as a thermodynamic effect -- classical statistical mechanics. Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLS%3DN-LXLmTmZP2v%3DtvFTMEb52P-Ym05sNvetWkMSbcUTw%40mail.gmail.com.
