This is Cynthia Sue Larson with realityshifters.com, talking with you
today about quantum supremacy, quantum time, and quantum rules. Google has been
in the news in 2019 for the idea that they are on the brink of announcing
quantum supremacy. That phrase in the realm of quantum computing simply means
that it's going to be expected that we can verify that quantum computers actually
are faster at some operations than classical computers. This has not been
proven yet, but it's expected to be proven quite soon. Now, when I hear the
term 'quantum supremacy,' I tend to think in terms of the phrase that's on my
shirt here, which says, "No return to classical reality." This is in fact the
name of a paper that was written in 2013 by David Jennings and Matthew Leifer.
The idea in their paper is that at a fundamental level, the classical picture
of the world is dead, and has been dead now for almost a century. Now these are
fighting words; these are brash words. But they are fully backed words, by the
demonstration that these two made that there do exist fundamental phenomena of
quantum theory that cannot be understood in classical terms. And as the authors
state, we now have a range of precise statements showing that whatever the
ultimate laws of Nature are, they cannot be classical. I've touched on this topic
before, and in fact I've written a paper of my own, called "Primacy of
Quantum Logic in the Natural World," which goes into a lot more detail as to why I
really feel that quantum supremacy is not just in the realm of computers, but
in fact will be seen everywhere. I'm absolutely thrilled by the prospect of
considering classical reality to be simply a special case that can be
calculated in quantum physics and quantum mechanics. And so I see that
we're unquestionably now in the Quantum Age,
which brings us to the next topic I'd like to bring up, which is quantum time.
Now in 2019, the mind-boggling recent discovery that true quantum supremacy
along the lines of 'No return to classical reality,' also seems to be
demonstrated in the realm of time itself. Physicists at the Stevens Institute of
Technology, the University of Vienna, and University of Queensland announced in
2019 that particles aren't the only ones capable of existing in a state of
superposition. You'll remember this is a quantum phenomena / a quantum principle or
quantum property, if you will. However, it's now been determined that when
these scientists were able to observe quantum temporal order, the sequencing of
events they reported in the August 22 2019 issue of "Nature Communications" that
quantum properties of time exist such that cause and effect can exist both in
a forward and backward direction. So, if time itself is quantum, what about other
areas? Well, another existing assumption
about reality is that we can definitely have this so-called 'quantum
realm,' and that's where there's this dividing line that people have
hypothesized that must exist, where we can ignore quantum properties and principles
and behavior, and just do the classical computations and keep it simple in that very
simplified special case world. This exciting announcement came forth from
the University of Vienna Austria. Markus Arndt and his team announced in a paper
they published in September 2019 that even huge molecules are following
the quantum world's bizarre rules. What they did is they noticed that there
is not so much of a 'seam' as they might have thought, because they're able to get
those same kinds of diffraction patterns, if you will, like
you might see with the double slit experiment, even with gigantic particles.
That wasn't supposed to happen, but it's happening. And so what I'd like to close
and conclude today with is the thought but those of us who are experiencing the
Mandela Effect, reality shifts, quantum jumps--all of that--where we notice that
our thoughts and feelings appear to have some effect on the physical world, we
might start noticing that we can expect that we're going to find some scientific
explanations that this type of phenomena can be expected to naturally occur. That
it is an integral part of recognized scientific models, and it's absolutely
necessary in order for life and reality as we know it to exist at all. So, until
next time, keep thinking about what it means to you to have quantum rules, quantum time, and
quantum supremacy. Keep asking, "How good can it get?" This is Cynthia Sue Larson
with realityshifters.com