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In early December, Google announced its latest quantum computing chip called Willow.

In a blog post, Quantum AI founder Hartmutnevin boasted that this new chip is so unimaginably fast,

the mere fact that it works is

evidence for the existence of parallel universes.

Now, advertisers have always made exaggerated claims about their products.

Companies falling behind competitors are under a lot of pressure to offer something game-changing.

And that's exactly the case with Google, once the undisputed titan of the internet,

but now losing ground to open AI and other tech innovators.

Big, bold claims from a company struggling to regain its mojo are expected.

But claiming its latest product proves parallel universes?

Well, that may be stretching it. According to Nevin,

quote, Willow performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today's

fastest supercomputers 10 to the 25th or 10 septillion years. It lends credence to the notion

that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes,

in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse. There are two separate claims here,

one sounding more like something from a Marvel movie. First, the claim that Google's quantum

chip far surpasses any supercomputer needs to be examined, considering what quantum computing is.

As theoretical chemist Neil Shenvi wrote, the idea behind quantum computing is not new.

Unlike conventional computers, which calculate using millions of transistors that can be either on or off,

quantum computers take advantage of an effect in quantum physics that allows each tiny switch

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