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The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution (2017)

105 pointsby uberdruabout 7 years ago

3 comments

sagebirdabout 7 years ago
The article states:<p>&quot;A central pillar of quantum theory is that the information — the probabilistic 1s and 0s representing particles’ states — is never lost. (The present state of the universe preserves all information about the past.)&quot;<p>What if the current state of the universe could have been arrived at by two different historical paths? That would imply that neither one could be a preferred history, that we would have to consider the present state to be -- arrived at through both histories?<p>Do photons have their probability distributions with interference patterns on screens to resolve a some sort of preferential history information storage? Like there is not enough bits available to say which screen the photons went through so they must say both?
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d--babout 7 years ago
As cool as it sounds, this is way beyond intelligibility for non-physics people. I don&#x27;t understand the need for trying to vulgarizing anything quantum related.<p>I understand the Maxwell demon, and Bennet&#x27;s argument, but everything after that is simply too hard.
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knowThySelfxabout 7 years ago
Both papers published simultaneously... How does that happen? But the probability of that happening seems to be more since the last 100 years ;)<p>And no, I don&#x27;t have any research papers or statistics to back up my statements. Just saying from observing this pattern on reading upon many of the stories about inventions&#x2F;discoveries etc.<p>BTW, what is the probability of others feeling the same about this &quot;observation&quot;?
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