The Computational Universe
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The Computational Universe
American Scientist July-August 2006
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The universe can be viewed as a
giant quantum computer made up of
connected quantum gates that flip
quantum bits and thereby propagate
information and uncertainty, says
Seth Lloyd in a new book,
Programming The Universe. The
"ultimate laptop" (one with 1
kilogram of mass and 1 liter of
volume) would have a maximum of 1051
operations per second...
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