Is the universe really just one big computer?

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That's what Seth Lloyd, a quantum computing researcher at MIT tries to argue in this paper:

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110141

His conclusions?

The universe can have performed no more than 10¹²⁰ ops on 10⁹⁰ bits.

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BTW, what the MIT kid says, it makes sense. Read the whole thesis.

He's not exactly a kid:

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/lloyd.html

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BTW the bible was written by 42 different authors and has been rewritten 5 different times to give you the King James version that people read to this day.

Gah, my beautiful thread. Let's not get into this...

[Siviak]

Damn Bascule, thats two in one week.... are you trying to make a statement?

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He's not exactly a kid:

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/lloyd.html

So this is the man that is going to make warp drive possible, huh? Next Einstien?

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So this is the man that is going to make warp drive possible, huh? Next Einstien?

He's one of the many people trying to stumble upon a Unified Field Theory by taking the universe-from-scratch approach.

If any of these people actually do succeed in duplicating anything from the Standard Model, then yes, they'll be the next Einstein.