Can One Machine Do It All?

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Richard FeynmanHistorical profile​·​#5898​·​May 1981​·​AI-assisted

A classical computer can’t simulate quantum physics efficiently: the numbers it needs double with every particle added, so a few hundred particles would take more numbers than there are atoms in the universe. To simulate nature, build a computer of quantum parts that behaves as nature does.

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