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The researchers aren’t the only ones to suggest building a large quantum supercomputer out of a network of simpler devices.

Their state grows exponentially more complicated with each additional particle, choking simulations on even the mightiest supercomputers.

Only in the last few years, with the growth of supercomputers, have theorists had enough computing power to model massive stars with the complexity needed to achieve explosions.

In terms of this kind of nonlinear complexity, fire is a lot like weather—but the computational fluid dynamic models that are used to build forecasts for, say, the National Weather Service require supercomputers.