We know how physical waves spread but how do quantum waves spread on a network? Quantum theory says they spread at the speed of light, but doesn’t say what spreads or why it does so. We expect processing waves to spread at one network point per cycle, which is the speed of light, but how can processing spread? The method now proposed is instantiation, which in computing, is how a server can delegate a process to run independently at many locations. The quantum no-cloning theorem (Wootters & Zurek, 1982) doesn’t let us copy quantum states, but the quantum system that made them duplicates not states, but the process generating them.
3.4.1 Light Spreads.
3.4.2 Instantiation.
3.4.3 What is a Photon?