You’re saying “trust math,” but math only binds when its primitives are well-posed. The modern definition of superposition smuggles in simultaneity without a defined clock. “At once” with respect to what unit of time?
If one can break the modern definition of superposition, you break the entire math and theory behind CQC models.
1. Superposition without a time quantum is semantics, not physics.
Superposition isn’t just spatial spread; it’s temporal and it asserts coexistence of incompatible states between measurements. If the smallest tick of change isn’t operationally defined or measured , “simultaneous” is an undefined primitive. Planck time is a theoretical bound, not a measured clock, it has never been measured or observed because of technological limitations, and the fact we exist within the ledger we’re trying to measure. Until you can compute time at that granularity, you’re describing probability distributions, not realized process. The modern definition of Superposition is assumed and has not been proven due to the lack of a measured quantum of time.
2. Bitcoin computes time; physics only infers it. Every block is a discrete, auditable quantum of time and memory created by irreducible work. Proof-of-work collapses entropy into a single conserved outcome at each tick. That is an operational definition of time: energy → structure, recorded forever. Within this substrate, “multiple states at once” reduces to “unresolved proposals in the mempool.” Measurement (mining + consensus) eliminates simultaneity, every step has one verifiable result.
3. “We can just scale to X logical qubits” rests on reversible-computation dogma. Resource estimates presume:
- a stable clock for coherent evolution,
- fault-tolerant logical qubits with nontrivial overhead,
- error models that stay stationary as scale rises,
- a readout that doesn’t reintroduce irreversibility costs you hand-wave away.
- assumes centralization in measurement and observation.
CQC is math on an assumed substrate. Bitcoin is math on a measured substrate: every tick priced in joules and conserved as memory. If your definition of superposition lacks a measured tick, your “proof” is an extrapolation from symbols, not from measurable physics.
You don’t defeat a thermodynamic clock (Bitcoin) with a semantic clock. Until “at once” is anchored to a measured quantum of time, superposition-based certainty is metaphysics with equations. Bitcoin’s ledger gives the thing you’re missing: a verifiable tick where entropy becomes memory. Go verify, the proof is in the work.
There is no second best, there has never been a threat. You just believe a story and deny the physics of the operational system in front of you.
Don’t trust, verify they say.
