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Which Computational Universe Do We Live In?

Cryptographers want to know which of five possible worlds we inhabit, which will reveal whether truly secure cryptography is even possible.

The post Which Computational Universe Do We Live In? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Very good simplification of the issues without actually doing “math”.

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