[ExI] Google’s Willow Quantum Chip: Proof of the Multiverse?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> This is why you need to take the 23 minutes to understand the video, or read this article on the same topic at your own pace:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermin%27s_device

Thank you!  Reading this article took much less than 23 minutes.

And...it reads like another "a priori definitions result in the cited
conclusions", in other words an error in the experimental definition,
without need of quantum mechanics to explain.  To quote an example
from the article:

> For the improved device, the expected results are the following: if one detector is switched to setting 1 while the others are on setting 2, an odd number of red lights flash. If all three detectors are set to 1, an odd number of red light flashes never occurs.

In other words, the definition of this device presupposes that the
results are linked to, and depend on, the settings of the detectors
(even if the detectors themselves are independent and can not interact
- which means that something else, not specified in the definition, is
doing this coordination).  So of course the results will depend on
that, if it's set up so they'll depend on that.

(I admit to editing the article to fix a typo in the quoted section:
it said "detectors set" when the grammatically correct version is
"detectors are set".)