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Re:IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical ... by Flow on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @10:30AM (#3643466)
Ok, thank you.

I was thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory and that those could be properties of particles skewed into extra dimensions.

This is way over my math and physics skill, but it's still very fascinating.

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Re:IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical ... by zitterbewegung on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @12:19PM (#3643916)
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_theorem Hidden variable theories don't make sense.
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Re:IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical ... by onemoreact on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @02:07PM (#3644400)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_Theorem works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_theorem does not.

Anyway, that's not quite true, you can get there by giving up principle of locality or counterfactual definiteness. And in theory nothing requires the principle of locality to be true.

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