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On Monday, Google unveiled Willow, its latest quantum computing chip, boasting impressive speed and reliability. However, the tech industry's attention was particularly drawn to a bold claim made by Hartmut Neven, founder of Google Quantum AI, suggesting that Willow's extraordinary performance implies the existence of parallel universes, supporting the notion of a multiverse.
Neven highlighted that Willow could perform computations in under five minutes that would take traditional supercomputers 10 septillion years, a figure that vastly exceeds known timescales in physics. While some welcomed this idea as plausible, skeptics noted that the performance metrics were based on benchmarks created by Google itself, raising questions about the validity of these claims.
Quantum computers operate using qubits, which can represent multiple states simultaneously, allowing them to solve complex problems beyond the reach of classical computers. However, the challenge remains that as more qubits are used, the likelihood of errors increases. Google's goal with Willow was to minimize these errors, which Neven asserts has been achieved.
