Equation 49 · Part 1 · The Bit Comes Back Before the Bearing
Symbol g
What this part means
g is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
g is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
The reason those two questions come apart is not decoder cleverness. It is that g is what Bartlett, Rudolph, and Spekkens call unspeakable information: a fact that cannot be conveyed by any classical message alone, because there is no such thing as “the direction north” without a physical system that already points north to compare against [ 9 ] . A qubit’s logical content — which of two orthogonal states it is closer to — can be copied onto a classical bit string and handed over on a slip of paper; a heading cannot, not even in principle, because a slip of paper has no intrinsic orientation relative to anything until a further physical frame is supplied to read it against.
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