'''''Programming the Universe''''' is a 2006 [[popular science]] book by [[Seth Lloyd]], professor of mechanical engineering at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. InThe it,book he advanced the viewproposes that the universe is actually a giant quantum computer, and that advances in understanding of physics may come from viewing entropy as a phenomenon of information, rather than simply thermodynamics. He also postulates that the universe can be fully simulated using a quantum computer however in the absence of a theory of quantum gravity this is not yet possible.
As reviewer Corey S. Powell put it in the ''New York Times''. Lloyd:
