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{{Short description|2006 book by Seth Lloyd}}

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| name = Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos

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| subject = [[Quantum mechanics]], [[quantum computers]]

| genre = Non-fiction[[Nonfiction]]

| publisher = [[Alfred A. Knopf]]

| pub_date = 2006

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Reviewer [[Corey S. Powell]] of ''The New York Times'' writes:

<blockquote>In the space of 221 dense, frequently thrilling and occasionally exasperating pages, …... tackles computer logic, thermodynamics, chaos theory, complexity, quantum mechanics, cosmology, consciousness, sex and the origin of life — throwinglife—throwing in, for good measure, a heartbreaking afterword that repaints the significance of all that has come before. The source of all this intellectual mayhem is the kind of Big Idea so prevalent in popular science books these days. Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering at M.I.T., takes as his topic the fundamental workings of the universe…universe..., which he thinks has been horribly misunderstood. Scientists have looked at it as a ragtag collection of particles and fields while failing to see what it is as a majestic whole: an enormous computer.<ref>{{cite news

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In an interview with ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' magazine, Lloyd writes:

<blockquote>everything in the universe is made of bits. Not chunks of stuff, but chunks of information — onesinformation—ones and zeros. …... Atoms and electrons are bits. Atomic collisions are "ops." Machine language is the laws of physics. The universe is a quantum computer.<ref>{{cite news

| title = Life, the Universe, and Everything

| work = Issue 14.03