Brian Cox
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So it's visualized to entangled particles in real time.
So it's visualized to entangled particles in real time.
So it's visualized to entangled particles in real time.
Yeah, I mean, I hadn't seen that, but it looks to me like it's another example of trying to visualize. Entanglement looks fundamental. Let me put it that way. So it does look as if this idea of entanglement, which is, as I said, perhaps producing space and time itself,
Yeah, I mean, I hadn't seen that, but it looks to me like it's another example of trying to visualize. Entanglement looks fundamental. Let me put it that way. So it does look as if this idea of entanglement, which is, as I said, perhaps producing space and time itself,
Yeah, I mean, I hadn't seen that, but it looks to me like it's another example of trying to visualize. Entanglement looks fundamental. Let me put it that way. So it does look as if this idea of entanglement, which is, as I said, perhaps producing space and time itself,
But also is the way that quantum computers work and the way that you โ we didn't talk about this, but the way that you can โ one way of picturing what this does is allow you access to multiple universes. It's the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. You mentioned it, breaking people's encryption codes, right?
But also is the way that quantum computers work and the way that you โ we didn't talk about this, but the way that you can โ one way of picturing what this does is allow you access to multiple universes. It's the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. You mentioned it, breaking people's encryption codes, right?
But also is the way that quantum computers work and the way that you โ we didn't talk about this, but the way that you can โ one way of picturing what this does is allow you access to multiple universes. It's the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. You mentioned it, breaking people's encryption codes, right?
What are you actually doing there? You've got an algorithm. You run a quantum computer. Yeah. And how does it factor these? What it's doing is finding the prime numbers that you multiply together to make a very big number. So it's very easy to multiply two big numbers together to get a really big number. It's very hard to take a very big number and factor it.
What are you actually doing there? You've got an algorithm. You run a quantum computer. Yeah. And how does it factor these? What it's doing is finding the prime numbers that you multiply together to make a very big number. So it's very easy to multiply two big numbers together to get a really big number. It's very hard to take a very big number and factor it.
What are you actually doing there? You've got an algorithm. You run a quantum computer. Yeah. And how does it factor these? What it's doing is finding the prime numbers that you multiply together to make a very big number. So it's very easy to multiply two big numbers together to get a really big number. It's very hard to take a very big number and factor it.
So find out what the numbers were that got multiplied together to make it. That takes much longer than the current age of the universe for big numbers with any conceivable classical computer. But the quantum computer can do it in a second or something.
So find out what the numbers were that got multiplied together to make it. That takes much longer than the current age of the universe for big numbers with any conceivable classical computer. But the quantum computer can do it in a second or something.
So find out what the numbers were that got multiplied together to make it. That takes much longer than the current age of the universe for big numbers with any conceivable classical computer. But the quantum computer can do it in a second or something.
But the explanation for how it's doing it, a picture, which many people in the field, not everyone, many people would say is the correct, is what it's doing is the calculations in multiple universes.
But the explanation for how it's doing it, a picture, which many people in the field, not everyone, many people would say is the correct, is what it's doing is the calculations in multiple universes.
But the explanation for how it's doing it, a picture, which many people in the field, not everyone, many people would say is the correct, is what it's doing is the calculations in multiple universes.
So it's accessing the fact that actually there's an interpretation of quantum mechanics called the many worlds interpretation, where you're to imagine these, you know, infinite pretty much sea of universes. And the computer kind of goes and does the calculation in parallel and then brings them back together again at the end.
So it's accessing the fact that actually there's an interpretation of quantum mechanics called the many worlds interpretation, where you're to imagine these, you know, infinite pretty much sea of universes. And the computer kind of goes and does the calculation in parallel and then brings them back together again at the end.