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$\begingroup$ Greetings Dr. 't Hooft. Perhaps this is a stupid question but it seems to me that finding a deterministic , classical "gears and sprockets" underpinning for QM is only problematic if one demands that it be local, which I think implies that it scales linearly (or sub-exponentially) with the number particles/qubits, whatever. For example, if you wrote down a classical system that reproduces the dynamics of an $N$-level quantum system using $O(N)$, or $O(N^2)$, resources, this wouldn't ruffle anyone's feathers. Would you mind clarifying this for me? (I'd rather not clog your inbox) $\endgroup$

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– lionelbrits

2015-01-19 14:24:13 +00:00
Commented Jan 19, 2015 at 14:24

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