Post No. 40. Quantum Computers. COVID-19 or Coronavirus is growing in an exponential way, but we don’t have to be scare with this term. It helps to track the speed of a disease and provide important information to provide assistance to vulnerable locations and patients. We need to identify the real enemy that is the time to find a cure.

Everyday people around the globe ask for a vaccine. This is not an easy task and will take years to find one. The human body needs to be exposed to a vaccine and the immune system should develop a strong memory of the pathogen. It is necessary to weaken the pathogen and it is done by growing several generations of pathogens in environments other than human cells. Mutant strains of pathogens should be selected. (Dr. Roohi Bansal, Biotechnologist and PHD in Molecular Biology)

Critical trials (research studies performed in people that are aimed at evaluating a medical, surgical, or behavioral intervention. NIH) are necessary but this process can take months or years and it will take a minimum of 1.5 years to introduce a vaccine in the market.

Last October 23, Google introduced their Quantum Computer with 54 qbits (basic unit of quantum information-the quantum version of the classical binary). They claimed Quantum supremacy.

The Google computer can generate 1,000,000 numbers in 200 seconds. A regular computer needs 10,000 years. IBM also have a Quantum computer.

Computers today still works as a Turing machine by manipulating bits that exist in one of two states: 0 or a 1. Quantum Computers encode information as quantum bits, or qbits, which can exist in superposition. As they contain multiple states simultaneously, they are millions of times more powerful than today’s most powerful supercomputers.
It is possible to use Quantum technology to find a cure to COVID-19. The Schrodinger Cat experiment demonstrated that quantum particles can exist in a superposition of states at the same time and collapse down to a single statue upon interaction with other particles this mean that we can create mathematical simulations to analyze infinite probabilities of responses to vaccines and treatments.
After all, Einstein said that “God does not play dice”.
(Photo courtesy of NY Times)

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