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chr1
It would be even more exciting if the device doesn't work for large number of qubits. Several theories (e.g. by 't Hoft, by Smolin) predict that quantum computers should not work when amplitudes become small enough.
banger180
Do you have a reference to these theories? Seems interesting
chr1
Lee Smolins book "einstein's unfinished revolution" is a fairly accessible, and all of his papers are on arxiv, e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.05108.pdf

Stephen Wolfram has an interesting blog post which is somewhat related https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-re...

't Hoofts book about celular automata interpretation is free at https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319412849

There are several theories predicting collapse of wavefunction which would prevent quantum computers e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_interpretation

dopylitty
Luckily for the competition Google will also lose interest in and cancel the processor a few months later to focus on developing a new web chat application or yet another mobile OS.
adtac
This is getting tiring, the same comment over and over again.
djmips
IKR? This isn't reddit.