I’d say the key insight with quantum computing is that its algorithms are about choreographing interference patterns among qubits such that wrong answers cancel each other out but right answers reinforce one another. It’s not just a matter of trying possibilities in parallel or “running different probabilities simultaneously” - the qubits’ states are complex combinations of 0 and 1 states, and they interact with and change one another. Simulating those interactions on a classical computer requires exponentially growing amounts of memory space and time as the quantum computation gets bigger. Trying to divide-and-conquer this simulation over multiple classical computers runs into the need for different parts of the circuit to know about each others’ state, limiting how much work can be sectioned off to be done by each computer in the group.

You can definitely simulate quantum computer with classical computer, but it just won’t be as efficient. classical computers would require exponential more space to simulated the process of a quantum computer, which quickly becomes unscalable.

Thanks for the insights, guys. My brain is a bit more wrinkly now.

Not just a one and a zero simultaneously, but every decimal in between. All infinity of them. This is the part that doesn’t scale well, classical computers don’t like infinity. Quantum computers love it.

i don’t know, but aren’t supercomputers already doing that with many cores except that kinda has a limit?