Mostly Right With a Little Bit of Wrong

Seth’s Lloyd’s book, Programming the Universe : A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos has been reviewed in the New York Times. Okay, so for my blood presure, I just should not be allowed to read passages like this

Ordinary desktop computers are a flawed model of the physical world, Lloyd argues, because they handle everything as clear “yes” or “no” commands, while the universe operates according to the rules of quantum physics, which inherently produce fuzzy results. But Lloyd happens to be one of the world’s experts in a new kind of computing device, called a quantum computer, which can produce similarly vague answers like “mostly yes but also a little bit no.” …

Ahhhhhhh! Yeah, I should avoid those passages.

2 Replies to “Mostly Right With a Little Bit of Wrong”

  1. What is tomorrow Universe seize to follow even the Quantum rules, will be then have neither yes nor no answer in the universe’s computer rather then either yes or a little bit no.

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