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Quantum Computers, Spy Balloons, and China’s Endgame | Paul Dabbar

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

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How Much Processing Power Do You Really Need to Get Control of This Quantum State?

In quantum physics, you can't know what the quantum state is until you physically measure it. If you could have 100 qubits on a chip with zero error rate, that would be 10 to the 17th supercomputer in the world. Every second, Oak Ridge National Lab's computer does five times as many calculations as there has been seconds since the Big Bang.

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