Quantum computers could simulate the beginnings of the universe and reveal how life formed

Everything in the universe is made up of elementary particles, the most fundamental building blocks of nature. Quantum physics states pairs of particles and antiparticles can be created out of empty space - but exactly how this process happens is complex, which makes it difficult to model using classical computers. Now scientists have modelled the way particles are spontaneously created using a quantum computer, for the first time. Scientists have modelled the way particles are spontaneously created using a quantum computer, for the first time. Quantum computing takes advantage of the ability of subatomic particles to exist in more than one state at any time.