Ep 176: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 2
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How to Predict the Behavior of Quantum Mechanical Objects
Feynman talking about how if you want to try and compute the behavior of quantum mechanical objects in other words predict what's going to happen with them it seems to be intractable. When we get to carbon carbon number six in the periodic table so now you've got six electrons, not only are they not at the same distance from the nucleus because now they're in two shells there are different distances from the nucleus but having six of them each of them having an effect one upon the other is rapidly spiraling out of control let alone the entire ensemble. This is the difficulty that Feynman was envisaging especially if you're trying to compute these things using a classical computer okay so let
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