Futuristic Computer Program Arrives Ahead of Computer
By Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer | LiveScience.com – Sat, Jun
9, 2012
Quantum computers don't exist yet, but physicists already have
a software program ready for them to use.
A group of
scientists has designed an algorithm that they say could run on any future quantum computer to
simulate all the possible interactions between two colliding particles. The
program could be used to model how the universe evolved after the Big Bang,
when conditions cooled enough for the formation of subatomic particlescalled
quarks, which then collided with each other to form protons and neutrons.
Eventually, the first atoms were born.
