ALT April 1, 2026 Google’s new machine can reach between universes to perform quantum computations by David Ward Well yes, we say, after a few minutes to think about it. Not to gag you with sweetness, but hasn’t any lover already accomplished this? When my love runs dry don’t I reach my wooden dipper into a parallel well where we have no children, or have several, or where we are children ourselves and have known each other since Mrs. Allen’s second grade class, and take for myself a cup of that David’s cold water? And don’t we here, now, in our only world, so often seek down to groundwater just so our other selves can drink?