Re: Can a Planck-scale conventional computer beat a normal-scale quantum computer?

From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 10:55:01 MST

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Michael LaTorra wrote:
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> Physics Nobelist 'tHooft claims it would. But can we engineer such a device?

If we can make the vacuum compute, and manipulate the bits of spacetime
at that scale. Both rather questionable assumptions (we have currently not
the slightest hints that both is possible).

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