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Old March 21st, 2002, 06:31 AM
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Ahh.. the multiple universe thing, isn't that one of the philisophical explainations of what superpositional states actually are? Is it the Copenhagen interpretion that suggests that every possible outcome should and does actually occur, resulting in an infinite number of product universes? (I might have the wrong interpretation here)

If a quantum computer turns out to be plausible, it would philosophically (or weirder yet, perhaps actually) calculate via superpositional states... which are actually all the possible universes.

Hey I'm not a physicist, but I'm pretty sure this is a standard, if not scary interpretation of quantum physics.

If this were so, then it wouldn't be the computer calculating something, it would be all possible universes worth of that particular computer calculating something. Now, I'm not sure if it makes for a good disaster predictor or combat predictor, but those quantum graphics cards will kick *ss!
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