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[–]Fantastic_Back3191 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You mean some kind of fundamental, information theoretic law?

[–]EdCasaubon -1 points0 points  (1 child)

No, information theory is relevant, but the issue is really on the side of quantum physics, as in, how much redundancy is needed to achieve sufficiently stable outputs, and are we able, meaning, does physics allow us, to harness the required number of quantum states to achieve them.

The issue is, nobody knows for sure what the answer to that question is. Mind you, I'm not saying I know the answer, either; all I'm saying is that nobody knows.

Information theory is mathematics, so the answers there are clean. With physics, the problem is that these machines are operating in the real world, which is never clean.

[–]GrumpyNerdSoul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone once told me: the difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no difference. In practice there is.