I'd rather not choose an order at all. In fact, I'd like the process to be so parallel that no order is required, and indeed, it might be difficult/impossible to determine whether there ever was an ordering. (As an aside, I'd like to mention the Bitcoin "blockchain" mechanism for establishing a _discrete linear order_ for transactional events. Bitcoin had to develop a quite significant mechanism to construct this linear ordering in real time. Perhaps there is a more elegant mechanism using QM to achieve the same effect.) I don't mind so much God playing dice with the universe, so long as he has 10^200 pairs of dice; serializing the entire universe through a single dice-throwing process really sucks! At 12:57 PM 7/1/2014, meekerdb wrote:
On 7/1/2014 11:17 AM, Henry Baker wrote:
Your algorithm is about as serial as one could possibly get; processing photons one by one & checking the CDF.
But the interesting thing about Young's slit experiment is that you get the same interference pattern even when the photons go through one at a time. So what's wrong with simulating them one-at-a-time?
This procedure also has an ever so slight drift error depending upon which order you process the CDF; the higher order statistics will be slightly skewed.
Then why not alternate order?
Brent Meeker