How can quantum mechanics be wrong? Isn't all our technology based on it? Well first, Mills' Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics (GUTCP) doesn't banish all quantum phenomena. Rather, it requires that they arise from an underlying classical reality. But some of the most weird results may actually be lost: shown to be misinterpretations or otherwise just wrong.
In this paper, I show that just because Shor's Algorithm, a quantum factoring algorithm, works in hardware does not mean that the superposition of states is real. I give a classical realization that is
Shor's Algorithm with the quantum part stripped out and replaced with random number generation. For the sizes of numbers that are within reach of quantum computing technology (like the number 15 = 3 * 5), unless care is taken, they can guess the right answer by brute force iteration.
I don't think quantum Shor's factorization will be the last quantum experiment to be shown to prove much less than it purports.
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