The Coldest Place in the Known Universe Is Here

Inside IBM’s headquarters, where quantum computers are built, you’ll find the coldest place in the known universe. Find out more in The Future with Hannah Fry.

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[SirAntoniousBlock]

Fun Fact: Just as it's impossible to reach the speed of light it's also impossible to reach absolute zero.

[stevenolah]

She has clearly never spent a winter in Winnipeg 😅

[kevinleentvaar]

I have actually done an internship at a company that speciffically makes the crygenic coolers/ machine. I have actually stood next to a machine that was at 6 milikelvin. And i remember a colleague telling me that there are methods to get even closer to absolute zero. All i remeber about thay is that it had something to do with multi-tesla electromagnets.

[jimmybroussard]

Thanks for dumbing it down for us lady

[MerculiarchSyn]

My exes feet at 3 am, placed directly onto the small of my back lol

[ThomasConover]

The coldest place in the universe is inside my family’s hearts.

[Ridz]

That’s the coldest place in the universe?

[johnsmith-zyxg]

Yes yes, but when will the consumer version be on sale...?

[nzxt]

I don't need to imagine I live here

[hp.a.]

At that point they can multiply 3x5=15

[musicloverchicago]

Waiting for this to be in laptop form.

[unnamed_account]

This is something i thought of before. What if I was able to do a "google search" on the universe, what could I look for, if i wanted to know where intelligent life form are. Look for the coldest temperature that exist was my main answer. What do you think is another valid answer?

[kevinmorgan]

I can imagine your pondering, what gave it away... The answer is yes, it was the bewitching sweater that struck me at first, then naturally my thoughts were to try picturing the digits to Pi R Squared. 😊😇🤔

[parthasarathyvenkatadri]

We are clearly missing something .. our brains are quantum computers and they do not require such low tempratures

[soumitrokun]

I was thinking about Higgs Boson condensate.

[Sanskarpachhai]

That's cold. And why does it sounds like simulation to me😅🤓💯

[rigveda]

Mars would be the perfect places to use this computer when our future generations set up base their

[surters]

14 millikelvin ... a person standing 10m away outside a window would heat that up ...

[virtualpilgrim]

Can you imagine having a last name of Fry

[edwardjam]

I'm sure another civilization was able to do this somewhere in the universe.