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To: Objective Reality
"Yes - in itself, as much a "leap of faith" as ever demanded by any religion in the history of humankind."

Well... not quite. Were quantum physics not true, we wouldn't have computers with which to talk about this. We also wouldn't have barcode scanners at supermarkets, among many other things.
103 posted on 03/10/2004 10:40:08 PM PST by Terpfen (Re-elect Bush; kill terrorists now, fix Medicare later.)
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To: Terpfen
Well... not quite. Were quantum physics not true, we wouldn't have computers with which to talk about this. We also wouldn't have barcode scanners at supermarkets, among many other things.

Afraid I don't follow. I've always considered the channeling of electricity through a large number of microcircuits, where "on" equals 1 and "off" equals 2, to be plain old physics, not quantum physics. Same with the concentration of a narrow spectrum of light across a beam, in terms of the barcode scanner. Nothing really quantum about the base technology.

I know work continues in the so-called "quantum computer" space, but my understanding is that it's really just the addition of more states than simply "on" and "off", amounting to "on and on", "on and off", "off and off", "off and on," and so forth up the multidimensional tree. There's also a theory that the human brain is actually an electrochemical "quantum" computer which processes data across multiple dimensions, else the candlepower of it can't be fully explained.

I think the current quantum theory is evolving within a simultaneously too-rigid and too-fantastical supposition, and that actual reality is simpler. Multiple dimensions that the human mind perceives as three, for example. Seems easier to digest to me.

128 posted on 03/11/2004 8:31:53 PM PST by Objective Reality
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