{"id":1142,"date":"2005-12-01T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2005-12-01T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T16:50:11","slug":"more-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/12\/01\/more-dice\/","title":{"rendered":"More Dice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full <del datetime=\"2005-12-01T09:59:1708:00\">t&#8217;<\/del> &#8216;t Hooft (<del datetime=\"2005-12-01T09:59:1708:00\">look I put the apostrophy in the correct location!<\/del>) <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/\">article<\/a> is now posted at Physics World (not Physics Today, as I listed incorrectly in <a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1137\">my first post<\/a>) commentary by Edward Witten, Fay Dowker, and Paul Davies.  Quick summary: Witten thinks that quantum cosmology is perplexing,  Dowker worries about the emergence of classical physics, and Davies postulates that complexity is the key to understanding the emergence of classicality.  Davies suggests that quantum mechanics will break down when the Hilbert space is of size 10^120 and suggests that quantum comptuers will fail at this size.  His argument could equally be applied to probablistic classical computers, and so I suggest that if he is right, then classical computers using randomness cannot be any larger than 400 bits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full t&#8217; &#8216;t Hooft (look I put the apostrophy in the correct location!) article is now posted at Physics World (not Physics Today, as I listed incorrectly in my first post) commentary by Edward Witten, Fay Dowker, and Paul Davies. Quick summary: Witten thinks that quantum cosmology is perplexing, Dowker worries about the emergence &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/12\/01\/more-dice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Dice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-physics","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}