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Re:Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory? by uryga on Saturday December 17, 2016 @07:59AM (#13200535)
"just physics", "stretches back infinitely" I feel like You could say this about, well, anything. Afaik, you could take any event and trace its causes all the way back to the Big Bang. But that seems a bit... impractical? Why would we do this with a quantum computer? Am I missing/misunderstanding something?
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Re:Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory? by naasking on Saturday December 17, 2016 @10:08AM (#13200950)
You're not "doing" anything with a quantum computer. That's just the reality of quantum computation in this conceptual framework.

And no, you can't say that about anything. In particular, you can't say that about non-deterministic interpretations of QM (most of them) because causal chains can only be traced back to the most recent non-deterministic event. In fact, pilot wave theories are among the only deterministic interpretations of QM.

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