Posted: Dec 16, 2010 1:16 pm
Yes, in getting bits for all the possible registers. And after that when you perform the operations you take the log function again to se how many bits of information you generated.Well, so the authors of the paper you rubbished were right in saying that Lloyd did use logarithms already for information equivalent.
The models that would account for the Newtonian physics would give you LESS not more probabilistic resources. Becasue the number of elementary particles is MORE than the number of atoms. If we estimate the number of particles to be 10^90 like Lloyd did, then the number of the smalles unit of matter that is above the quantum level is less than that since atoms consist of particles. And their estimate is 10^80. So you would not have 10^120 states, but 10^110.Care to explain why Lloyd is tentative wrt his conclusions, firstly, and secondly, establish that the above models apply to Newtonian scale physics instead of just models that are postulated to be quantum computers, and also account for the highlighted bit?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universeTwo approximate calculations give the number of atoms in the observable universe to be close to 1080.