Ask HN: Spooky action at a distance is a shame
The reason quantum computers have such a high error rate is because of this.
If I took schrodingers thought experiment and performed them on two different planets, they would die at different times. Gravity will skew the results.
Gravity isn’t static, it’s a wave that has peaks and valleys; it interacts with all things that have mass and don’t.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 23.9 ms ] threadGravity is very week, you can also almost ignore it.
And the wavy-not-almost-static part of gravity is negligible.
We build quantum computers where? On a planet? That has? Gravity. We have a star that also creates? You mean to tell me that gravity will bend light with 0 mass, but it won’t interfere with an electron? Or atom?
I’m open for debate, show me some papers or blog posts on how gravity doesn’t interfere with a quantum gate? Look at the moons gravity and our oceans.
Yep. Earth.
But they are small for now. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing#Physical_rea...
> In late 2017 and early 2018 IBM, Intel, and Google each reported testing quantum processors containing 50, 49, and 72 qubits, respectively, all realized using superconducting circuits. By number of qubits, these circuits are approaching the range in which simulating their quantum dynamics is expected to become prohibitive on classical computers, although it has been argued that further improvements in error rates are needed to put classical simulation out of reach.
I agree the effects of at least earths gravity is “small”; I wouldn’t say negligible.
When dealing with predictions of a spin on an electron through a scattering process, even the smallest interference will skew your result.
We have a hard time trying to measure or detect gravity; I have a theory if you perform the entanglement process on earth and then tried to detangle the message on the moon, your results would be different. Or even better on a moon of Jupiter!
The same reason people say it would be impossible to modify an entangled qubit. Since the reversal of the scatter would end up with a different wave pattern.
Thank you for taking the time to reply! I’m hungry for some intelligent debate.
Gravity can be caused by combined vibration of an element. Think about quantum fluid. We see a big correlation between the micro and macro universe.
So if the earth has a frequency that means it vibrates, that plus mass can equal the effect of gravity. Though that is still a rough idea.
Gravity is still a mystery until we can detect it.