
Ep 176: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 2
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Weather Forecasting and Earthquake Prediction
No one expected the computer prediction of interesting physical phenomena to be especially easy take weather forecasting or earthquake prediction for instance. Although the relevant equations are known the difficulty of applying them in realistic situations is notorious. This has recently been brought to public attention in popular books and articles on chaos and the butterfly effect. These effects are not responsible for the intractability that Feynman had in mind for the simple reason that they occur only in classical physics that is not in reality since reality is quantum mechanical.
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