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Life, the Universe, and Everything

Wired March 2006
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Atoms and electrons are bits.
Atomic collisions are "ops." Machine
language is the laws of physics. The
universe is a quantum computer. So
says Seth Lloyd in is new book,
Programming the Universe.

"The universe is a system where the very
specific details and structures in
it are created when quantum bits
de-cohere -- choose one path out of...

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Supercomputer builds a virus

news@nature.com March 14, 2006
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One of the world's most powerful
supercomputers has built a computer
model of the satellite tobacco
mosaic virus. The researchers say
the simulation is the first to
capture a whole biological organism
in such intricate molecular detail.
Running on a machine at the National
Center for Supercomputing
Applications, Urbana, the program...

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