Re: Quantum Computers

From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Fri Aug 20 1999 - 09:41:52 MDT


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Bryan Moss <bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com>

>The many-worlds FAQ states that within the Copehagen interpretation,
>"...the view has generally been adopted that the wavefunction associated
>with an object is not a real "thing", but merely represents our *knowledge*
>of the object."

>My interpretation would be that the
>probability is no less real than any other explanation.

It's much more abstract than that, the wavefunction is not a probability,
it's a function full of imaginary numbers describing the square root of a probability.

    John K Clark jonkc@att.net

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