"Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist."

How could I not read an article (or attempt to read since I am not a physicist, a computer scientist, or anything remotely close to either) with a title such as that?

The title of this post comes from a December 10 article in Techcrunch regarding Google's latest quantum computer chip, Willow. It quotes from an article written by Hartmut Neven, Founder and Lead, Google Quantum AI, entitled, "Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip". Given what Dr. Neven had to say, an understated title if there ever was one.

Is Willow fast? According to Neven, yes, you could say it is fast.

"Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch."

When it comes to proving/disproving the existence of universes parallel to the one in which we live, the debate continues. However, that wasn't and isn't my concern. The Unlived Lives of Raymond Quinn, and soon to be sequels, asks the reader to imagine what their infinite lives in the multiverse might be like. 

Think about yours.