Via the Computational Complexity (welcome back Lance), the list of accepted papers for CCC 2008 has been posted. Woot, that's a lot of quantum inspired papers. By my count 7 of 33. Quoteth Feynman
...and I'm not happy with all the analyses that go with just the classical theory, because nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical...
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If nobody know of what consist quanta it don't means, that nature isn't classical. And if you want to do simulation of nature you need nature itself, instead binary 0 dimension computer.