Is Math the Key to Quantum Entanglement Protection?
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This opening statement is simply false. Quantum Computers can easily be simulated on classical hardware, unfortunately with exponential Time and Space complexity overhead, in most interesting cases.
While you are correct, classically solving a problem in a time measured in years is not useful or meaningful. So personally I would allow the article some creative wording to improve understanding in this case.
In fact, anything past 20 years of compute could be reasonably assessed to be impossible, practically speaking.
This isn't meant to be pedantic, simply to underline a class of compute intensive problems that are practically intractable with classic computing, even though technically possible.
If those intractable problems can be solved using quantum computers, we take another step on Kardashev's path to a type 1 civilization. Or another step closer to the great filter.