Planet-Sized Quantum Computers With God-Like Powers – Why Do We Need Them?

Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com – Does something need to be gigantic to be good? What are the advantages of constructing planet-sized quantum computers with God-like powers? How can such monster machines help our world and humanity?

Scientists are investigating the potential use of gigantic quantum computers and the incredible powers of these stunning machines.

Quantum computers offer much more than ordinary computers. A quantum computer is millions of times faster than any classical computer and can reduce power consumption from 100 to 1000 times.

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Quantum computer technology is a field still in its infancy, but researchers are making rapid discoveries and it won’t be long before quantum computing will change the modern world.

As Vice reports, “some problems would take far too much time or memory, running on for nearly forever. But in an exciting new result, a team of computer scientists have shown how in theory quantum computers should be able to rapidly verify that a practically infinite problem was solved.”

Giant quantum computers with unlimited power are incredible problem solvers.

“You’re not studying these [computers] in order to build anything,” said Thomas Vidick, one co-author of the study and professor at the California Institute of Technology.

Rather, the researchers theorize about quantum computers to understand the complexity of problems that they could solve.

“Problems that are so hard that you are setting aside how much time it takes to solve them, and instead focusing on different ways to verify their solution.”

Quantum computers have practically infinite power—think of computers the size of planets—so it is no surprise that they can solve the halting problem.

But if their solution takes all the time and space in the universe, how do they prove it to you and your laptop? Another co-author of the study, Henry Yuen, professor at the University of Toronto, spoke to Motherboard about the results.

“There’s an intuition from the last nearly 100 years from Turing that the halting problem is not solvable. If we know it’s not solvable, why would we expect that it’s possible for someone to convince you that they solved it? That’s one of the major sources of bewilderment,” Yuen said.

This remarkable process can be achieved through quantum entanglement: each quantum computer contains subatomic particles that are entangled with particles in the other computer. When particles are said to be entangled, they seem to share information.

Entanglement offers a profound communication resource for the two quantum computers.

“Experimental tests of entanglement have been the source of great interest since the 1970’s. Physicists have shown in real tests that the amount of correlations between entangled particles is more than would be expected if quantum entanglement did not exist. These differences are captured in formulas known as Bell inequalities.

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Bell inequalities directly quantify the famous weirdness of quantum physics, where entangled particles all the way on opposite sides of the universe could seem to communicate instantaneously. “

According to mathematician Greg Kuperberg at the University of California, this new research gives us a better understanding of quantum physics.

The new result “is some vast computational extension,” he said.

“You potentially have a much stronger violation of some kind of Bell inequality,” meaning that quantum physics might be even more weird than was thought.

Entanglement might be even stronger. And the computers that one day use quantum physics, verifying impossible problems over immeasurable distances, might seem to us more like gods.”

It seems the day when machines act like gods comes faster than most expected.

Written by Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com Staff Writer