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To: sourcery
NEC Corp ADR closed at 9.20 today, up 0.02 (+0.22%). Not exactly a quantum leap.

But I've got to wonder: what, as explained in Euclideo-Newtonian or Einstienian terms, the heck is happening in the pre-decoherence state (the quantum state); and what, other than the observation, causes the decoherence?

These questions are ontological, addressing being qua being. I understand the calculations of information content, but what exactly is being harnessed -- other than the information itself? Does this CNOT gate, in fact, manipulate information as entropy?

We don't anticipate the answers to these hypothetical questions to be provided in the published paper.
28 posted on 10/30/2003 11:14:03 PM PST by Unknowing (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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To: Unknowing
The most fundamental entity is the distinction. The absence of any distinction intrinsically forms a distinction between the existence and non-existence of distinction. Therefore, distinction must exist. From its existence, all else is derivable. See: The Laws of Form.
30 posted on 10/30/2003 11:22:50 PM PST by sourcery (Moderator bites can be very nasty!)
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