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laodan discovered 28 months ago
Programming the universe Seth Lloyd sheds light on the communication mechanisms that underlie our universe at the micro-level. But this does not bring us closer to the ability of visionning our universe in its reality. As such reality remains as unattainable with the knowledge of quantum computation than it was with the knowledge of "electronic" computation... in the NewYorkTimes' First Chapters by Seth Lloyd. """ This book is the story of the universe and the bit. The universe is the biggest thing there is and the bit is the smallest possible chunk of information. The universe is made of bits. Every molecule, atom, and elementary particle registers bits of information. Every interaction between those pieces of the universe processes that information by altering those bits. That is, the universe computes, and because the universe is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics, it computes in an intrinsically quantum-mechanical fashion; its bits are quantum bits. The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer. """ URL: Programming the universe
