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“Pumping those investors was never this easy,” Sundar Pichai.
Pichai is a petaQ
That a natural phenomenon occurs with precision that would require enormous computation to simulate isn’t proof of parallel universes.
EVERYTHING IN THE NATURAL WORLD IS THAT WAY!
Roll a ball down an inclined plane and measure the time to attoseconds. Now try and simulate the exact results. Friction and air resistance for that level of accuracy make it a computationally enormous problem.
OMG a rolling ball is evidence of parallel worlds!
For the downvoters analog computers were a thing. For my particular rolling ball example, while never used in practice, it’s a squaring calculator. You can program logic gates to calculate X^2 or roll a ball down an inclined plane and measure the result.
A quantum computer maintains several states simultaneously allowing for parallel computations faster than simulation with digital circuits. It’s the in nature of quantum states that allows parallel computations just like the nature of a rolling ball can calculate a square.
To be fair, the title here draws more confidence than the actual quote from the Google engineer.
The actual quote, about one factor (speed):
It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.
“Indicates” is too strong of a word, and was used to click bait.
Yup any system that can stimulate another system would have to be larger and more complex than the system it’s stimulating.
That a natural phenomenon occurs with precision that would require enormous computation to simulate
This isn’t the argument put forward by the article. Nothing about the precision of the measurement is made to be something of significance.
Also even if that was the case your analogy of it being like a rolling ball is totally inadmissible because a computation is not the same thing as a measurement.
Your attempt to liken the two shows some serious level of stubbornness in rejecting what possibly could be a very meaningful advancement in technology and metaphysics.
It’s totally ok to brush this article off as poorly written sensationalist crap but the problem is you don’t seem to understand the argument for why quantum computing capabilities are indicative of the possibility of a multiverse in the first place.
Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.
Seriously? Since he couldn’t be where he is today if he actually believed what he said, this guy just seems to be desperately saying anything to get media attention, including naming his department “Google Quantum AI”.
Modern supercomputers can do computations that would take a person computing on the fastest abacus 10 septillion years which vastly exceeds the age of the universe, so do we live in a multiverse squared?
We are still in 616 correct?
Wait, I thought we were in New 52 after The Thing happened.
Good, maybe we can bail on this one.
Other one is Warhammer 40k.
They can see us now.
Can’t see me, ridin down three.
They can’t see me. I’m under my security blankie.
