Notes on the reading: So what I got
through that incredibly dense amount of text was that quantization of
gravitational fields is less likely to happen if the since the behavior of the
measuring apparatus affects the quantum outcome… I think. But, don't count out
LIGO yet. The way that the quantum study of the objects is that, …”So the
separation between the two objects is less than the Schwarzschild radius of
each of them, the negative gravitational potential pulling them together is
greater than Mc2, and they are bound to collapse into a black hole before the
measurement can be completed. “ [1] That is crazy, I never knew that black
holes could theoretically exist in this state. Also a lot of funky math
equations that I did not get. I think the point of the paper was to examine if
even the theoretical questions have answers, let alone be provable. The second
hypothesis implies that the gravitational field at a point in space-time does
not exist, either as a classical or as a quantum field.
For this week’s project I will talk
about the idea that observation is completely impossible at the quantum level –
I am interested in the study of quantum mechanics, and exactly what is possible
– I believe that quantum computing is the future arriving fast, and will bring
with it a whole host of other questions and computations. Programmers talk
about the possibilities of quantum computing as, “Ideally, a quantum
programming language should permit programmers to implement quantum algorithms
at a level of abstraction that is close to how one naturally thinks about the
algorithm. If the algorithm is most naturally described by a mathematical formula,
then the programming language should support such a description where possible.
Similarly, if the algorithm is most naturally described by a sequence of
low-level gates, the programming language should support this description as
well.”
These are so interesting because if
the understanding is similar to classical knowledge of computing, the language
differences will not be too different.
Works Cited:
[1] "Is a Graviton Detectable?" Freeman Dyson,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Poincare Prize Lecture
International Congress of Mathematical Physics Aalborg, Denmark, 6 Aug. 2012.
Web. 3 July 2016. <https://doted.artcenter.edu/pluginfile.php/111777/mod_resource/content/1/is%20a%20graviton%20detectable.pdf>.
[2] BENOÎT, VALIROn, ROSS NEIL., Alexander Scott, and
Johnothan Smith. "Programming the Quantum Future." Applied Science
and Technology Source. EBSCOHOST, Dec.-Jan. 2012. Web. 3 July 2016.
<http://0-web.b.ebscohost.com.library.artcenter.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=9c988a04-e324-453d-ac5b-3a6d3529169a%40sessionmgr101&vid=15&hid=128>.
[3] Meter, Rodney Van. "Quantum Computing’s Classical
Problem, Classical Computing’s Quantum Problem." Applied Science and
Technology Source. EBSCOHOST, 7 May 2014. Web. 3 July 2016.
<http://0-web.b.ebscohost.com.library.artcenter.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=9c988a04-e324-453d-ac5b-3a6d3529169a%40sessionmgr101&vid=10&hid=128>.
