My Brain Has Been In A Pretzel Since Google Announced That Their New Supercomputer Quantum Chip Proves That Alternate Universes Exist
Tech Crunch - Google on Monday announced Willow, its latest, greatest quantum computing chip. The speed and reliability performance claims Google’s made about this chip were newsworthy in themselves, but what really caught the tech industry’s attention was an even wilder claim tucked into the blog post about the chip.
Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven wrote in his blog post that this chip was so mind-boggling fast that it must have borrowed computational power from other universes.
Ergo the chip’s performance indicates that parallel universes exist and “we live in a multiverse.”
Here’s the passage:
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.
This drop-the-mic moment on the nature of reality was met with skepticism by some, but, surprisingly, others on the internet who profess to understand these things argued that Nevan’s conclusions were more than plausible. The multiverse, while stuff of science fiction, is also an area of serious study by the founders of quantum physics.
Netflix put Interstellar back on and I've been watching it the past few nights as I fall asleep.
Tremendous movie. Awesome story. The cinematography blows the mind, the sound rattles your bones, and Jessica Chastain is a dime. This is the third or fourth time now I've seen it, and for the life of me, I cannot even begin to wrap my brain around the concept and theory of relativity and how it pertains to space/time/gravity.
The people whose brains are gifted enough to grasp the concept and understand it fucking blow me away.
They are able to think on a level so much higher than the rest of us that I honestly don't even get how the interact with us normal morons on a daily basis without losing their minds. (Maybe that's why many of them go crazy?)
People like this lady, who understand what Google and these scientists have figured out the same way we understand bad sports bets and Sydney Sweeney's curves -
Apparently, this new Willow chip is so blazing fast that Hartmut Neven, the founder of Google Quantum AI, publicly hinted it must’ve been pulling computing power from, oh, I don’t know… other universes. nbd.
Let that sink in.
One minute, we’re reading about some fancy new processor that does calculations in record time, and the next, we’re being told, “Oh, by the way, we live in a multiverse. Have a nice day.”
It sounds like something straight out of the Marvel movies.
Neven wrote in the company’s blog post:
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 10^25 or 10 septillion years … This mind-boggling number … lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse
First off, look at this fucking thing.
Secondly, Google claims Willow solved a problem in under five minutes that would take a classic supercomputer “10 septillion years” (that’s 10^25 years, or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years). (I don't even know how to process that number, I just know that’s far beyond the age of the known universe.) (Google, how old is our universe? Answer- we are currently clocked at around 13.8 billion years)
How is that even possible?
Not just to accomplish, but to fathom. How can the human mind even conceive of something that collosal? It reminds me of that video that illustrates just how tiny the Earth is compared to other stars, planets, and the universe. If you really want to feel like less than a speck of dust, you should give it a watch.
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Speaking of Earth and the universe, and back to this chip, basically, if we started that regular supercomputer at the dawn of time, we’d still be twiddling our thumbs, waiting for the result today. And for a few more hundred trillion years.
Willow, by comparison, completed it all in just five minutes.
So does a new chip running mind-bending calculations prove we’re living in Rick and Morty territory?
You've gotta think that this either proves this theory that we do indeed exist in a multiverse, and/or, that it proves this is all just a simulation. Right?
Critics, because this is science after all, and science is built upon the notion of questioning everything, always (unless Pfizer convinces our government to mandate something of course) suggest this whole thing is kind of like inventing your own game and declaring yourself the champion. Kind of like this season of Surviving Barstool.
They claim Willow might be a giant leap forward, but the actual day-to-day reliability needed to prove anything about the nature of reality is still years off. So technically their measurements aren't even close to being precise.
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Thanks Debbie Downer.
Personally, I choose to believe. I'm buying what Google and Neven are selling.
There are an infinite amount of universes where we all exist. Some where we caught every break imaginable and reached our full potential, and somewhere we're living in a van down by the river.
Here's my tenth youtube video I'm embedding in this blog. If you can see it, it's Neil Degrasse Tyson explaining this entire theory in layman's terms.
The question is how do we alternate between those realities? Essentially, cashing out from the table the dealer is fucking smoking us at, and switch to the reality where we're on the heater of all blackjack heaters?
p.s.- how much does this chip actually cost? And if it's somewhat affordable, then maybe it's capable of fixing a certain website that crashes anytime you scroll to look at pictures or watch one of ten embedded videos, after being bombarded with gigantic ads? Asking for a friend.
p.p.s. - I can't help but think of Madmartigan (Val Kilmer) from the movie Willow everytime I see that word. Underrated early 90s flick.
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p.p.p.s. - if anybody can help me better understand Interstellar or point me in the direction of a book or video that can, please fire away.