First, the notion that a quantum computer would have infinite processing capability is incorrect… Second, if our understanding of quantum mechanics is correct
It isn’t. They can simulate a world where quantum computers have infinite power because because they live in a world where quantum computers have infinite power because...
Ok, but in that case, that world in question almost certainly can’t be our world. We’d have to have deep misunderstandings about the rules for this universe. Such a universe might be self-consistent but it isn’t our universe.
What I mean is that this isn’t a type of fiction that could plausibly occur in our universe. In contrast for example, there’s nothing in the central premises of say Blindsight that as we know it would prevent the story from taking place. The central premise here is one that doesn’t work in our universe.
It isn’t. They can simulate a world where quantum computers have infinite power because because they live in a world where quantum computers have infinite power because...
Ok, but in that case, that world in question almost certainly can’t be our world. We’d have to have deep misunderstandings about the rules for this universe. Such a universe might be self-consistent but it isn’t our universe.
Of course. It’s fiction.
What I mean is that this isn’t a type of fiction that could plausibly occur in our universe. In contrast for example, there’s nothing in the central premises of say Blindsight that as we know it would prevent the story from taking place. The central premise here is one that doesn’t work in our universe.
Well, it does suggest they’ve made recent discoveries that changed the way they understood the laws of physics, which could happen in our world.