GOOGL: Alphabet Stock Hits Record as New Quantum Chip May Prove Parallel Universes Exist

Shares of the Google parent soared nearly 6% on the day and powered the Nasdaq Composite to break 20,000 points for the first time in history. Also, multiverse exists? What a time to be alive!

• Alphabet stock GOOGL rallied nearly 6% Wednesday as the company announced what could turn out to be a game changer in the quantum computing race. Willow, Alphabet’s latest quantum computing chip, promises to bring a breakthrough in large-scale simulations and code breaking. If things pan out nicely, the optimistic outlook is still years ahead and the not-so-optimistic is decades from now. The tech giant’s surge lifted the Nasdaq Composite to an all-time high above 20,000 points.
• ”Willow brings us closer to running practical, commercially-relevant algorithms that can’t be replicated on conventional computers,” Google wrote in a blog post, adding that the findings could be evidence that parallel universes exist. "The performance of the Willow chip was so phenomenally fast that it had to have 'borrowed' the computation from parallel universes." So what speeds exactly are we talking about?
• The chip performed a computational task that would take a modern powerful computer 10 septillion years in under five minutes. That’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," the blog said. Willow's extraordinary performance "lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse."