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Quantum Computing and Spacetime

Jochen Fromm-5
Natalie Wolchover writes about Quantum Computing and Spacetime. I like her articles, but this one is a bit far fetched, isn't it ?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-space-and-time-could-be-a-quantum-error-correcting-code-20190103/

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Re: Quantum Computing and Spacetime

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I suppose it depends on what you mean by "far fetched".  Abduction comes in 2 forms, right?  Does it really matter if our universe is actually encoded by its boundary?  If the resulting computation works in any sense, then the unicorn that inspired it was real enough.

On 1/29/19 4:15 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
> Natalie Wolchover writes about Quantum Computing and Spacetime. I like her articles, but this one is a bit far fetched, isn't it ?https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-space-and-time-could-be-a-quantum-error-correcting-code-20190103/


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