In <[email protected]>, on
09/19/2014
at 10:34 PM, Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> said:
>You might have to get yourself a quantum computer
No, you can build purely classical 16-state elements. But for
electronic computational elements[1], 2-state is much more reasonable.
>doesn't M-theory posit (demand ?) 11 dimensions ?
Various string and super-symmetric theories demand specific numbers of
space-time dimensions in order to avoid anomalies. the numbers 10 and
11 seem to be the important ones in current theories, although 26 was
important at one time.
[1] Most modems these days use more than two signal states.
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