tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post457333251273606018..comments2019-11-10T11:03:27.193-08:00Comments on Dark Buzz: Von Neumann not QBistRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-42239648246861295932015-01-30T14:46:55.610-08:002015-01-30T14:46:55.610-08:00Roger, I was required as a class project to attend...Roger,<br />I was required as a class project to attend a lecture on Quantum Computing by Dr David J Wineland at my college last night. I think it is fair to say that when you use schrodinger&#39;s cat as your primary example of why you are right, you aren&#39;t on very firm footing with reality. After all the blather, I noticed what was very discreetly NOT said was that an actual qubit gate had been made to function at all. If you believe that probabilities have actual existence sans the math calculations that generated them, and that there is a magical way to observe them using actual some device, you will believe anything. <br /><br />Can you see the moon at right this instant? I like to think it is still there even you cant. <br /><br />All quantum mechanical malarkey stems from the simple fact that if you use a mathematics of probability to measure or describe something with, you get your answers in (drum roll please) probabilities. This is not an indication that reality is composed of a probability, it is ONLY an indication of what you described it with. <br /><br /> You have to really be determined to be silly to use a second hand (or third hand, fourth hand etc..) calculation as a primary cause of anything. Probability is a result of calculation which is a result of a measurement which is the result of the action of being measured which is the product of a measurer using some method to measure something. Get your the order of your cart and horse figured out already.<br /><br />An interpretation is also worthless if it does not accurately convey what was said. An interpretation better agree closely with someone else&#39;s interpretation of the same thing said or it becomes painfully obvious that no one is actually aware of what was said at all.CFTnoreply@blogger.com