Re:Quantum Computing Explained Simply
by csomar on Thursday July 20, 2017 @12:40PM
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This was pretty short. But I thought people working on quantum computers were trying to understand the Wave function, and then see if they can make the Wave function do the calculations. In the case the world was a simulation, this is like accessing the computing power of the Simulation Computer of the world.
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It was short because this article doesn't explain quantum computers. A better title is "Why we can make smaller transistors?" Quantum computers don't use transistors.
And quantum computers are not about understanding The Wave or hacking the word simulator. Another commenter post this link, that is a good initial introduction http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
(Anyway, to really understand what is quantum mechanics and quantum computers, you need a lot of algebra. Don't trust explanations without algebra.)