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Ep 190: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part3

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The Problem With Quantum Theory

Turing implicitly used classical mechanics in his construction. We can now see that even the classical theory of computation did not fully conform to classical physics and contained strong adubrations of quantum theory. In quantum theory, we've got this situation where many systems, all systems really, can only take on discrete values. There's no such thing as an n equals one point five energy level.

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