'''''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 universeUniverse 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 universeUniverse 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."<ref>Lloyd, Seth, ''Programming the Universe'', Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, 978-1-4000-4092-6</ref>
