Intro

Sabine Hossenfelder says quantum computers are only useful for breaking codes. She's wrong — and my undergraduates are building the proof. What's happening in my lab right now has nothing to do with cryptography, and everything to do with the future of AI.

I'm a cosmologist at UC San Diego teaching undergraduates to build, program, and eventually launch quantum computers — possibly to the Moon via Artemis!

We cover: why Sabine's code-breaking verdict misses the real story, how free tools like Quantum Rings are closing the education gap Sabine thinks is a hardware problem, why Q-Day just got moved up to 2029, what my students are actually doing with quantum computers in my lab, and why the next generation of quantum physicists won't need a billion-dollar facility to train.

The bottleneck isn't the hardware. It's what we're teaching — and who we're teaching it to.

Use my special link to get access to the course and apply for the summer 2026 internship:

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Watch Sabine’s video https://youtu.be/qV7hQEtr3ic?si=EPcg5fAw_18QaKhM

Timestamps:

00:00 Quantum Is More Than Codebreakingt

00:51 The Week Q-Day Jumped Years Aheadt

02:38 Why Quantum Felt Useless (Until Now)t

04:42 What Happens If Encryption Fails Quietlyt

05:33 The Tool That Changes Everythingt

07:37 From Beginner to Running Algorithmst

09:26 The Infrastructure Behind the Shiftt

10:58 The Real Bottleneck: Not Physicst

11:59 The Opportunity Everyone’s Missingt

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