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“They’re actually 900 years old” or something

Never had a website not work on PC Firefox

Well our current model of superposition is what lets us do predictions on qubits that have turned out to be correct; just seeing “history” would not let our current quantum algorithms be developed. That’s the beauty of scientific theories; good ones are simple but let us predict and test new ideas. Superposition is wildly successful in that sense.

since each instruction in the computer is a function over the whole algorithm’s history back to the start of the quantum circuit, rather than just the current state of the computer’s memory at that present moment.

How do you explain, without superposition, how a gate operating on single (entangled) qubits has access to the entire history of all qubits of the system?

An equilateral triangle is a subset of isosceles triangles, and not of right-angled triangles…

Sorry it’s a sausage roll in English; it’s called sausage bread in Dutch

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saucijzenbroodje

That’s sausage-bread though

I’m pretty sure this goes against the properties proven of entanglement (Bell test) and how far entanglement can propagate, but I don’t know enough about quantum mechanics to explain why this explanation is incompatible with entanglement.

However, I don’t currently see how this at all explains computing with superpositions; if it’s just statistics a superposition can never exist, so entanglement doesn’t exist; so quantum algorithms wouldn’t be possible, but we know they are.

The wavestate is entirely deterministic, and we don’t fully understand where the probabilistic measurement happens. The Copenhagen intrpretation makes it probabilistic but is not proven.

(even many worlds doesn’t explain why we ourselves only see one macroscopic section of the wavefunction)

This being a double physically hurts