Windows 7: Researchers Announce Huge Quantum Computing Breakthrough

As far as quantum computing breakthroughs go, this latest one by a team of researchers from the U.S., Australia and South Africa is truly special. According to the researchers, a tiny crystal comprising only 300 atoms developed by them has paved the way for a “huge leap” in computing. A leap so vast, these researchers claim, that it would take a supercomputer larger than the known universe to do the kind of calculations possible with their “quantum simulator,” a special type of quantum computer.

Quantum computers are not even close to what we consider a computer. They only do a couple of things really well, like factoring large numbers and some traveling salesmen routing problems. THAT'S IT. Nothing else.
The truly eerie thing is that these calculations are done simultaneously through the multiverse. Each calculation is done in another instance of our universe but the results show up at the end here at OUR instance. Since there is an infinite number of instances of our universe in the multiverse, an infinite number of calculations can be done instantly if we have enough quantum bits to use.

I heard that DR Gordon Freeman is going to oversee the project.