Physics understands how physical waves spread but how do quantum waves spread on a network? Quantum theory says they spread, but not what spreads or how it does so. Processing waves should spread at one point per network cycle, which is the speed of light, but how do they spread? The method proposed is instantiation, which in computing lets a server delegate a process to run at many locations. The quantum no-cloning theorem (Wootters & Zurek, 1982) doesn’t let us copy quantum states, but a server that generates a process can easily duplicate it.
3.4.1 Light Spreads.
3.4.2 Instantiation.
3.4.3 What is a Photon?