Exploring Space Travel: The Power of Quantum

The multiverse. A limitless realm that includes an infinite number of universes. Our universe is not the only universe that exists. The multiverse theory suggests that there are many, many universes that formed randomly when everything began, and each of these individual universes have their slight irregularities. There may be universes where you were born and where you were not born. There may be universes where Hitler lost and where Hitler won. Michael Crichton, a famous novelist, used this concept of the multiverse to create his book Timeline, which is about a group of scientists sending human data back into time via the multiverse. This idea, which is made real through the usage of quantum computers, describes the very essence of what may become the future space travel.

Author Michael Crichton suggests that time travel does not exist. This is not necessarily wrong, for time travel within a single universe has a multitude of paradoxes and controversies. Instead, Michael Crichton claims that we can travel to different instances of time and space via space travel and the utilization of many of the bizarre laws and phenomenon that exist in the multiverse and worm holes, which are tunnels in space time that connect multiple universes. Of course, for space travel to work, you will need to successfully send a human being through a worm hole, but no matter how you think about it, that should be impossible. Worm holes do exist, but they only exist in the quantum foam, which is the microscopic fluctuations (10-33 cm) that create the ‘fabric’ of space time. How do you fit a 150 cm human through a 10-33 cm hole? The answer is simple: convert a human into a fax message.

Okay, the answer might sound simple, but the process that leads up to it is incredibly difficult. When I say a fax message, yes, I do literally mean a 2D blueprint of a human that has enough data to make an entire being, an organism consisting trillions of cells and a plethora of chemical reactions. How do you do this, you may ask? Well, you will first need a computer to process the information. Alas, such a powerful computer, even with parallel processing, does not exist at the moment, so for now, it is physically impossible to make a full blueprint of a human being. Quantum computers, however, do have the ability to process the information of a three-dimensional object. Quantum computers are similar to regular computers, but instead of manipulating bits, quantum computers manipulate qubits, which is a basic unit of data that can take on the role of both ‘1’ and ‘0’ commands, whereas regular computer bits only take on either a ‘1’ or a ‘0’. Thus, the power of a quantum computer is several million times greater than your average PC computer, making the possibility of space travel a reality, and not a dream.