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No, if. Scalable quantum computers might be physically impossible or close to it. That would explain why the world, which is really quantum, always appears classical.

Quantum computers have something similar to moore's law which is that adding each bit is as difficult as all the previous bits. i.e. the required noise floor scales exponentially, unless a certain threshold is reached.




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