Crypto and new computing strategies
Mike McNally
m5 at vail.tivoli.com
Wed Mar 30 11:12:31 PST 1994
Jim choate writes:
> The problem w/ the whole N - NP approach
P - NP
> is that is assumes that the QM
> model behaves as we would expect it to, it doesn't. I think this is one of
> those assumptions that are better left un-made. I have worked w/ enough QM
> projects throug UT and Discovery Hall (Dr. Turner and Dr. Prigogine) that
> I am not comfortable assuming the QM world even cares about the N or NP
> issues we are debating.
It sounds as if you're claiming that mathematics as we know it does
not apply when dealing with quantum effects. I suggest that this is a
strong statement, and I add that I see no reason to believe it. At
the same time, I'm neither a mathematician or a physicist.
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