Science in Perspective
🌌 Science in Perspective
Science in Perspective examines scientific work by changing the level of description. Instead of isolating parts, it looks at how structure, information, and constraints give rise to behavior across systems.
Each episode starts from real research and asks what patterns remain when the details are stripped away. The focus is not on results alone, but on the organizing principles that recur across physics, biology, cognition, and social systems.
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Science in Perspective
Stop Forcing Quantum to Think Classically: What Google Got Right, and Wrong, about Quantum Supremacy
In this episode I discuss Google’s new Willow chip and its claim of quantum supremacy — what the experiment actually did, why the benchmark still reflects classical thinking, and why forcing quantum systems to behave like deterministic machines misses their true potential. Instead of celebrating speed alone, we explore the deeper question: should quantum computing aim to mimic classical algorithms, or unlock genuinely emergent behavior the way nature does?
Suggested Reading
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03300-4 (nature announcement)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19550 (Google's echo paper)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-025-01908-7.pdf (Vibronic coupling paper)
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