Terence Tao has an interesting post on why many-worlds quantum theory is like Tomb Raider. I think it’s de Broglie-Bohm theory that is more like Tomb Raider though, as you can see from the comments.
Archive for February, 2007
Tao on Many-Worlds and Tomb Raider
27th February 2007Dates for your diary
20th February 2007Update: I am informed that the Oxford Everett meeting will be in the summer rather than in September and is invitation only. Also, there will be a Symposium on the Foundations of Modern Physics in Vienna 7th-10th June. Registration for that is open until the end of March.
I haven’t been contemplating too many quantum quandaries [...]
Quantum Brains
7th February 2007OK, I should be preparing a talk, but it is late and my mind is wandering, so it’s not going to happen tonight. Instead, I’ll pose this puzzler: If quantum computers are more efficient than classical ones then why didn’t our brains evolve to take advantage of quantum information processing?
I have a vague recollection of [...]
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