➔ Greening the World: Quantum Computing and Artificial Photosynthesis
Book: Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything Author: Michio Kaku ISBN: 978-0385548366
Chapter 7 is about something we all take for granted. Plants. Green stuff everywhere. You walk through a forest, everything is alive and growing, and you don’t think much about it. Kaku makes you stop and consider what is actually happening at the molecular level though. Scientists still don’t fully understand how photosynthesis works. After 3 billion years of it happening on Earth, we still can’t explain the first step properly.
➔ The Origin of Life: Can Quantum Computers Crack Biology's Biggest Mystery?
Book: Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything Author: Dr. Michio Kaku Published: 2023, Doubleday ISBN: 978-0385548366
The Chapter Where Kaku Goes Full Biology
After five chapters of quantum computing basics, hardware races, and qubit architectures, Kaku shifts gears completely. Chapter 6 is about the origin of life. It actually makes sense in context though, because the argument he builds is that understanding how life started is fundamentally a quantum problem. Quantum computers might be the only tools powerful enough to crack it.