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Susskind: Classical computers can never simulate 100 entangled qubits
“Classical computers can never be built big enough to explore more than 400, more than actually more than Probably a hundred qubits. A hundred qubits doesn't seem like very much. No classical computer can do the calculation of following what a hundred qubits do…”
Susskind: Black holes store 10^10 times more information than ordinary matter
“Our world is mostly all black holes, it really is, in the sense that the information stored in matter is at least
let me think I think about 10 to the 10th, a factor of 10 to the 10th more information stored in black holes than anything else.”
Susskind: Dark energy is 120 orders of magnitude smaller than expected
“The dark energy is, Is a tiny, tiny minuscule fraction of what it could be. Why is it so small? 10 to the minus a 120 of what the natural expectation for it would be.”
Susskind: Maldacena's math validated the holographic principle for mainstream physics
“It wasn't, it didn't come in from the cold, shall we say, until the work of Juan Maldesena, who made a really rigorous, beautiful version of it, which now everybody believes. The mathematics of it was, it came from, it was a string theoretic construction where…”
Susskind: Quantum teleportation cannot enable faster-than-light communication
“In order to do quantum teleportation, you cannot do quantum teleportation without at the same time sending classical information from one place to another. Classical information means, you know, The dots and dashes, Morse code dots and dashes. You can have two…”
Susskind: Quantum teleportation provides security impossible with classical protocols
“It gives you absolute, 100% security that no classical non-quantum mechanical protocol could ever give you. But it can't be done faster.”
Susskind: Quantum Field Theory Originally Dictated All Particles Could Be Isolated
“From all that we knew about the subject as quantum field theory, the subject that governs particle physics, from all that we thought we knew, any kind of particle that exists should be possible to kick it out and observe it directly in the laboratory.”