• Question: have you considered quantum computing?

    Asked by BasedStickman to Marta on 6 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Marta Varela

      Marta Varela answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      Yes, I have. When I needed just choose my first research project I spent a lot of time wondering whether I should use physics to study the human body (like I do now) or quantum computing.

      If I had studied quantum computing I would’ve focused on what kind of computations quantum computers would allow us to do not so much in how to build one. It seems to me amazing and incredibly powerful that just because you’re relying the rules of the quantum world you’ll be able to do so many calculations very quickly and efficiently.

      I might switch to working on quantum computing one day still, the most likely I’ll just wait for a quantum computer to be available in shops and use it to make my simulations of the human body much faster and more powerful…

      What do you like the most about quantum computing?

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