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Ep 176: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 2

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Rendering Quantum Environments in Virtual Reality

Intractability is in principle a greater impediment to universality than unpredictability ever could be. Feynman reasoned it might after all be possible to render quantum environments efficiently, provided the computer were allowed to perform experiments on a real quantum mechanical object. For example, an interferometer could act as such a device and like any other physical object, it can be thought of as a computer. We would nowadays call it a special purpose quantum computer.

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