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QM says QC as we envision them will work.

QM says a quantum entangled state will remain like that until disturbed/measured. If there is some limit as you suggest, that means QM is at least partially broken.



That’s right, but it doesn’t specify what exactly is disturbance/measurement. We know from observation that interaction with a macroscopic system causes wave function collapse seemingly instantly. But we don’t know much about in-between behavior, like what happens when interacting with another microscopic system and does wave function of a microscopic quantum system collapse on it’s own given enough time.




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