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2017-11-19, 11:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What technologies can also be "quantum" in nature?
Yeah I have several projects in the pipeline and I am obsessed with future technologies. Idk why. I have a severe form of OCD and I am currently on meds for it. Maybe I'll up them. This is just my latest "phase" obsession. As a child it was construction vehicles. Then dinosaurs. Then we get into the really *weird territory. As a teenager it was my physical height and growing taller and when it was 19, it was porn. Now it seems to be technology. (Sigh)
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2017-11-20, 02:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What technologies can also be "quantum" in nature?
Last edited by Lvl 2 Expert; 2017-11-20 at 02:59 AM.
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2017-11-20, 07:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-11-21, 10:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What technologies can also be "quantum" in nature?
Either you aren't willing to be god of your campaign, or Einstein was right and god doesn't roll [that many] dice.
But "quantum" doesn't mean "atomic level", it just means "integer [not real] levels of state". RPGs simply increase the quantum level to whatever they roll dice for.
Example: if you have 20 [base] hit points, you never are down 15.256734 hp, just 15 or 14. Hit points are a quantum value.
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2017-11-21, 03:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What technologies can also be "quantum" in nature?
discrete odds. The real world doesn't have a lot of quantum processes that involve having 20 base hit points, most of the actual examples of thing that are "quantum" in the real world have the quatum-"choices" play out on a sub-molecular scale. (Example: you can have 0.673842109482etcetc ducks, it's just a little messy). So if you'd want to take advantage of the proposed idea, rolling for the exact odds of an event, you'd have to roll for every molecule. (Or rather for quarks and stuff but let's not make the humor too overcomplicated here.) Hence the joke.
#NeverexplainthejokeLast edited by Lvl 2 Expert; 2017-11-21 at 03:26 PM.
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2017-12-22, 01:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What technologies can also be "quantum" in nature?
Relevant SMBC.
More relevant SMBC that addresses misconceptions about quantum computing.
I guess the OP could be refined into "Which possible and/or current technologies would and/or do rely on quantum events having probability amplitudes rather than classical probabilities, such that they don't work the same as they would under Newtonian physics?"