{"id":99094,"date":"2019-11-27T22:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T06:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/study-our-universe-may-be-part-of-a-giant-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2019-11-27T22:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T06:02:37","slug":"study-our-universe-may-be-part-of-a-giant-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/study-our-universe-may-be-part-of-a-giant-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"Study: Our universe may be part of a giant quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-our-universe-may-be-part-of-a-giant-quantum-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pair of physicists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) in Russia recently proposed an entirely new view of the cosmos. Their research takes <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/distract\/2017\/07\/06\/simulation-hypothesis-and-the-search-for-god\/\">the wacky idea<\/a> that we\u2019re living in a computer simulation and mashes it up with the mind-boggling \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/science\/2019\/11\/08\/meet-the-scientist-who-thinks-we-all-exist-in-multiple-universes\/\">many worlds<\/a>\u201d theory to say that, essentially, our entire universe is part of an immeasurably large quantum system spanning \u201cuncountable\u201d multiverses.<\/p>\n<p>When you think about quantum systems, like IBM and Google\u2019s quantum computers, we usually imagine a device that\u2019s designed to work with subatomic particles \u2013 qubits \u2013 to perform quantum calculations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of physicists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) in Russia recently proposed an entirely new view of the cosmos. Their research takes the wacky idea that we\u2019re living in a computer simulation and mashes it up with the mind-boggling \u201cmany worlds\u201d theory to say that, essentially, our entire universe is part of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}