@article{310139,
      recid = {310139},
      author = {Lloyd, Seth,},
      title = {Programming the universe : a quantum computer scientist  takes on the cosmos /},
      address = {New York : Vintage Books,},
      pages = {xii, 239 p. :},
      year = {2007},
      note = {"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by  Alfred A. Knopf ... New York, in 2006"--T.p. verso.},
      abstract = {Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer?  According to Seth Lloyd--professor of quantum-mechanical  engineering at MIT and originator of the first  technologically feasible design for a working quantum  computer--the answer is yes. This book illuminates the  professional and personal paths that led him to this  remarkable conclusion. All interactions between particles  in the universe, Lloyd explains, convey not only energy but  also information--in other words, particles not only  collide, they compute. And what is the entire universe  computing, ultimately? "Its own dynamical evolution," he  says. "As the computation proceeds, reality unfolds." To  elucidate his theory, Lloyd examines the history of the  cosmos, posing questions that in other hands might seem  unfathomably complex: How much information is there in the  universe? What information existed at the moment of the Big  Bang and what happened to it? How do quantum mechanics and  chaos theory interact to create our world? Could we attempt  to re-create it on a giant quantum computer?--From  publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/310139},
}