[pullquote align=”full”]“If you think you understand quantum physics, you don’t understand quantum physics”
– Richard Feynman[/pullquote]
Google and NASA’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab [Google]
Video (6 minutes)
“This is the inside of one of our refrigerators. All of this intrastructure is to basically operate the chip at a temperature that’s two orders of magnitude colder than interstellar space…”
Quantum Computers One Step Closer After Australian Breakthrough [IFLScience!]
Article (4 minutes) – Alfredo Carpineti
“The specific test conducted in Australia used entanglement to run the code. Entangled particles are created together in a specific way so that their properties, such as energy and momentum, are connected. If a property is changed on one particle, for example during a measurement, the others will be affected as well. The changes are instantaneous, even if the two particles are at opposite ends of the universe…”
Google’s Quantum Computer Is 100 Million Times Faster Than Your Laptop [Science Alert]
Article (7 minutes) – David Nield
“Trying to get an understanding of the new developments without a physics degree and a mastery of scientific jargon isn’t easy, but essentially, researchers ran simulated tests of standard computer chips and compared them against the capabilities of the D-Wave 2X when doing the same sums – that’s where the 100 million speed increase was noted….”
How Quantum Biology Might Explain Life’s Biggest Questions [TED]
Ted Talk (16 minutes) – Jim Al-Khalili
“Quantum biology asks a very simple question: Does quantum mechanics – that weird and wonderful and powerful theory of the subatomic world of atoms and molecules that underpins so much of modern physics and chemistry – also play a role inside the living cell?”
Your Brain Isn’t a Computer. It’s a Quantum Field. [Big Think]
Article (5 minutes) – Daphne Muller
“The quantum-cognition theory opens the fields of psychology and neuroscience to understanding the mind not as a linear computer, but rather an elegant universe. But the notion that human thought and existence is richly paradoxical has been around for centuries…”
The Revolutionary Quantum Computer That May Not Be Quantum At All [WIRED]
Article (21 minutes) – Clive Thompson
“What we’re trying to do is build the most kick-ass computers that have ever existed in the history of the world…”
Thanks for reading and Happy 2016!
Joe Howard
