A quantum computer program has produced an answer without actually running. Curiouser and curiouser
What I don’t understand is, if it is not running and still produces answers, then why couldn’t they have had the same result from a quantum computer they hadn’t built?
Well I’m impressed that you understand *any* of it!
Sorry, I didn’t mean to give that impression. 🙂
All very nice and good – but why?
Because.
qUITE.
If a tree falls in the forest and there is no-one there to hear it…….
…..we’ve got a free Christmas tree. 🙂
But the program has to be in a position I suppose that it could be running, for whatever quantum effects they use to get the ‘answer’ to ‘work’. Shrodinger’s cat has to be in the box?
As to why – well, if a quantum computer would be oodles faster than any current device.
I love quantum mechanics, it is just so bizzare and unintelliglble 🙂
But what if the components of the computer were placed in a position in which they could be assembled? Surely that ought to be just as good?