Google says it accessed parallel universes with its new supercomputer

Google's quantum computing breakthrough on Monday has left the physicist who heads the project a believer in 'the idea that we live in a multiverse.' Calling Willow's performance 'astonishing,' the leader and founder of Google Quantum AI team, physicist Hartmut Neven, said its high-speed result 'lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes.' Willow is said to have solved a computational problem so complex it would have taken today's best super-computers 10 septillion years to solve it Google Quantum AI's Hartmut Neven and Anthony Megrant examine a cryostat refrigerator for cooling quantum computing chips at Google's Quantum AI lab in Santa Barbara, November 25, 2024. Neven argued that Willow's success could prove the 'multiverse' theory In Siegel's view, neither leading interpretation of parallel universes or a multiverse would be supported by a successful quantum computer. A cryostat refrigerator for cooling quantum computing chips is displayed at Google's Quantum AI lab in Santa Barbara, California According to Google, Willow can run 105 'qubits' — the basic unit of information in quantum computing, with more qubits meaning more power.