No. But it proves Santa Claus. On Friday, 20 December 2024 at 15:10:10 UTC+2 John Clark wrote:
> *I would say the answer is no, it doesn't prove the multiverse exists but > it does provide evidence in its favor. The leader of the team that made > Willow, Google's revolutionary new Quantum Computing chip, Hartmut Neven, > would go further than I would, he thinks the fact that his chip has solved > a problem in five minutes that would take the largest conventional > supercomputer 10^25 years to solve is a direct result of many Willow chips > in many different worlds working on the same problem at the same time. > Granted it's not a problem of any practical use but I agree with Neven that > fact is not relevant in this context.* > *Neven said this:* > > > *“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.”* > > *Other interpretations can give the same results but I can understand why > somebody who has to get his hands dirty and actually make the hardware and > software for a Quantum Computer would take the Many Worlds idea as a given > due to the fact that you've got to keep a whole lot of complicated things > straight in your head, and it's much easier to do that if you think in Many > Worlds terms because it doesn't need to add all sorts of complicated bells > and whistles that other quantum interpretations require. So I would say > that regardless of whether it's true or not, in the next few years the Many > Worlds interpretation is going to increase in popularity, especially among > Quantum Computer engineers and software writers.* > > *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* > baw > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/6153a965-e296-4c6e-af5a-c1ee20c74415n%40googlegroups.com.
