David Friedberg

What did you go on to do at that point?

Was it considered groundbreaking Nobel Prize winning work?

And what was the story at that time when this came out?

Of course, the greatest, yeah.

Yeah.

So that big idea is to use quantum mechanics and these properties of quantum mechanics to do computing.

And so you started to do that with your life's work, pretty much.

You go on to a very good career.

And so then a couple of years after 2014, I think you ended up at Google's quantum lab in Santa Barbara.

Is that right?

Well, just maybe give your description of a qubit, and maybe we can relate

You know, how do we build these quantum computers from qubits to the Josephson junction and some of the early work you had done that you ended up winning the prize for?

And then you can measure that quantum mechanical behavior, create a representation and use that to run your computing.

And then just to understand...

Your work that you won this Nobel Prize for that demonstrated this quantum mechanical phenomenon at scale, is that part of the design of a qubit and the circuitry?

Did that inform that design work or explain it rather?

I mean, it's very interesting.

And I think just this broad question or observation that sometimes inquisitive minds leads to research that leads to some set of discoveries that are completely not apparent until 40 years later, the effect or the impact it may have had on building an industrial field.

Like there's now quantum computing, everyone feels is on the brink

of actually achieving what people have talked about in theory for decades, but seems to be getting very close to doing it.