Programming the Universe

Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos
Softcover edition
AuthorSeth Lloyd
LanguageEnglish
SubjectQuantum mechanics, quantum computers
GenreNonfiction
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
2006
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN978-1-4000-4092-6
OCLC423500375
530.12 22
LC ClassQC174.12 .L57 2006

Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos is a 2006 popular science book by Seth Lloyd, professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The book proposes that the Universe is a quantum computer (supercomputer), and advances in the understanding of physics may come from viewing entropy as a phenomenon of information, rather than simply thermodynamics. Lloyd also postulates that the Universe can be fully simulated using a quantum computer; however, in the absence of a theory of quantum gravity, such a simulation is not yet possible. "Particles not only collide, they compute."[1]

  1. ^ Lloyd, Seth, Programming the Universe, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, 978-1-4000-4092-6