re: Many Worlds

Mitchell Porter (mitch@thehub.com.au)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 08:13:28 +1000 (EST)


John Clark said

> It's possible to explain the operation of a Quantum Computer without
> resorting to the Many Worlds theory, but doing so is convoluted and difficult,
> if you were to program such a machine I believe it would be more productive
> to think not of one device but of trillions running in parallel. Of course
> nobody has made a Quantum Computer, but I predict that if somebody ever does
> then Many Worlds will become the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics
> because it will be the easiest way to think about certain problems.

I would like to see someone explain the operation of a quantum computer
*using* Many Worlds theory!

-mitch
http://www.thehub.com.au/~mitch