Philosophy of Physics: Is the Future Determined
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Last year on 23 October, Google published an announcement of a quantum computer named Sycamore is the first to perform a calculation that much faster than a supercomputer. It has been marked as a milestone in computer science of “quantum supremacy”.
Rehoboam has first been introduced in Westworld S3 as a quantum computer system. Rehoboam’s main function is to impose an order to human affairs by careful manipulation and prediction of the future made possible by the analysis of the large data set Incite Inc. has collected. By using quantum computing to predict the future is not a new idea when it comes to science fiction movies.
As more and more people acknowledged and got interested in quantum physics, there are more science movies and TV series with their infinite imagination on quantum computing. Some of the imaginations can have a probability to become reality by the years go, which according to the quantum computing applications such as financial modeling and weather forecasting. Although the theory of determining the future frequently appears in science fiction, the arguments behind the theory are not always unfounded. It can be supported by the theories of quantum mechanics and philosophical beliefs in reality.