Re: COMPUTERS; Quantum Computers

Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:53:48 +1000


At 06:49 PM 12/26/96 -0600, Eli wrote:

>Heck, with a 64-qubit QC, you could probably string
>instructions together completely at random and wind up with the most
>powerful solution immediately.

If you crossed a quantum computer with Borges's Library of Babel, it struck
me a while back, might you destructively interfere all the `wrong'
descriptions of physics, being left with a single Book of True Everything
(Abridged)? I love the idea that you could turn on the infinite monkey
machine and get out Ed Witten Mark Aleph Null.

Damien Broderick