Re:Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory?
by Ar-Curunir on Saturday December 17, 2016 @08:14AM
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Well we don't really know so far whether BQP is bigger than P.
Re:Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory?
by oceanofsolaris on Saturday December 17, 2016 @12:41PM
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Okay, that is of course true :)
So replace "it is an inherently hard problem" by "it is most likely an inherently hard problem".
This makes a lot of sense if you think of it that way: Pilot wave theory gives exactly the same results as any other decent interpretation of quantum mechanics. So the work necessary to simulate it will also be exactly the same. Simulating quantum mechanics is not hard because we don't understand it. It is hard because it is an inherently hard problem (otherwise, how could quantum computers be faster than classical computers?).