Setting up a rolling ball at a particular height to calculate a square is performing a computation in the same way setting up the voltages on a set of transistors that you preconfigured to give you the square of the inputs.
Without measurement, you don’t get the results of the ball rolling or the transistors. Reading the output of the transistors is the measurement of a physical system.
very meaningful advancement in technology
I didn’t criticize the technology at all!
It was 99+ years ago that Quantum Mechanics resulted in all manner of explanations for why QM is the way it is. This new chip does not change any of that. It is a technological advancement, not science or philosophy.
Dropping a ball is not an effective means of computing a square.
A quantum computer is such an effective means of performing its computations, that it brings into question how it can even be possible that the electronic signals forming the intermediate results can all simultaneously exist and be consumed in the first place.
You doubling down again on comparing these two just proves you don’t understand anything about the claims being made.
Setting up a rolling ball at a particular height to calculate a square is performing a computation in the same way setting up the voltages on a set of transistors that you preconfigured to give you the square of the inputs.
Without measurement, you don’t get the results of the ball rolling or the transistors. Reading the output of the transistors is the measurement of a physical system.
I didn’t criticize the technology at all!
It was 99+ years ago that Quantum Mechanics resulted in all manner of explanations for why QM is the way it is. This new chip does not change any of that. It is a technological advancement, not science or philosophy.
Dropping a ball is not an effective means of computing a square.
A quantum computer is such an effective means of performing its computations, that it brings into question how it can even be possible that the electronic signals forming the intermediate results can all simultaneously exist and be consumed in the first place.
You doubling down again on comparing these two just proves you don’t understand anything about the claims being made.