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Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
The universe is made of bits of information and it has been known for more than a century that every piece of the the universe - every electron, atom and molecule - registers these bits and that information. It is only in the last years, however, with the discovery and development of quantum compute...
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2007
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| 245 | |a Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos | ||
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| 300 | |a xii,239p.: ill | ||
| 520 | |a The universe is made of bits of information and it has been known for more than a century that every piece of the the universe - every electron, atom and molecule - registers these bits and that information. It is only in the last years, however, with the discovery and development of quantum computers, that scientists have gained a fundamental understanding of just how that information is registered and processed. Building on recent breakthroughs in quantum computation, Seth Lloyd shows how the universe itself is a giant computer. Every atom and elementary particle stores these bits, and every collision between those atoms and particles flips the bits into a new arrangement and effortlessly spins out beautiful and complex systems, including galaxies, planets and life itself. But every computer needs a program, the set of instructions that tell it what patterns to create. Where did the bits come from that tell the universe to create its magnificent complexity? Who - or what - is programming the universe? | ||
| 650 | |a Quantum theory -- Mathematical models. Microcomputers -- Programming. Quantum computers. | ||
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