Andy Stumpf

Oh, the multiverse.

I mean, to me, that might as well be... I think they started it with Spider-Man.

That might as well be a scientific documentary because that's my reference for the multiverse.

Like...

I guess we shouldn't even talk about it because we don't know what we're saying.

It's never stopped me before.

But it's one of those things where it's like quantum computers are real.

It's an actual real thing now.

Google, specifically Hermut Nevin, who leads Google Quantum AI, has recently used language that strongly suggests their new quantum chip speed could be understood as borrowing computational power from other universes.

Wow.

But this is an interpretive, speculative way of talking about quantum mechanics, not an experimentally established fact or a standard claim.

The claim comes from December 2024, a blog post about Google's Willow quantum chip.

Nevin wrote that the chip solved a task in minutes that would take a classical supercomputer about 10 to the 25th power years, far longer than the age of the universe.

Again, I understand every word you just used, but I don't understand what that means.

Stop scrolling.

Go back up.

He then said this lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes and that this aligns with the idea that we live in a multiverse explicitly referencing David Deutsch's many worlds argument for quantum computing.

Yeah, right.

We're too dumb to have this conversation.

That's where we need to get Bill on speakerphone.