From: Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Sat Jul 17 1999 - 09:25:14 MDT
Freeman Craig Presson wrote:
> [...] A lot of scientists, most famously Einstein, have
> wondered what's "behind" QM. Common sense is somewhat
> affronted by, as Old Al said, "God playing dice." So if some
> more general theory were proven true such that there really is
> a nice, comfortable, somewhat understandable deterministic
> mechanism underlying QM, I suppose there *could* be a
> consequence of that theory that would make the quantum world
> predictable.
Hypothetical Question: Einstein is right, God does not play dice. The
mechanism behind QM is not only deterministic but also (feasibly)
computable. Would this mean a piece of software that used this new theory
could solve NP-complete problems on a conventional computer?
BM
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