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PREVIEW: QUANTUM COMPUTING: Colleague Brandon Weichert reports on fresh information from Microsoft regarding "topological qubits" that can demonstrate untold speed in problem solving, all with the mysteries of instant communication unsolved. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: QUANTUM COMPUTING: Colleague Brandon Weichert reports on fresh information from Microsoft regarding "topological qubits" that can demonstrate untold speed in problem solving, all with the mysteries of instant communication unsolved. More later.
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0:45.7

This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Brandon Weikert of National Interest about quantum computing.

0:48.3

Brendan is my guide on these matters and it is fresh information to me, a new vocabulary.

0:54.8

Here Brandon describes why it bothers a number of people when they first come up against

1:01.8

what it claims to do, what it can do, much faster and something else.

1:08.1

Simultaneous information transfer from module to module, no matter the distance.

1:14.7

Simultaneous. However, early days, there's a quantum race on China, the United States, Europe, Britain in particular.

1:28.3

DARP is involved. Everybody's chasing.

1:31.9

Maybe five years, maybe 25, quantum computing.

1:35.6

Here's Brandon to characterize how it bothers people when

1:39.7

they're looking at something that doesn't make sense

1:42.4

in our understanding of physics in this part of the cosmos.

1:48.7

Simultaneous communication.

1:50.6

That means not light speed, simultaneous.

1:54.3

Here's Brennan Mikehart, much more of this tonight and in coming weeks.

1:58.8

So, yeah, the issue here with quantum computing in general is understanding the results

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