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"Programming the Universe" by Seth Lloyd

A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

(notes from Kindle)

Table of Contents

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TODO Information and Entropy MIT course quantum

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Stonehenge may well have been a big rock computer for calculating the relations between the calendar and the arrangement of the planets

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One counterintuitive result of a computer’s fundamentally logical operation is that its future behavior is intrinsically unpredictable. The only way to find out what a computer will do once it has embarked upon a computation is to wait and see what happens

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But despite their simplicity, they can be programmed to produce patterns of any desired complexity, and the programs that produce these patterns need not possess any apparent order themselves: they can be random sequences of bits.
The generation of random bits does play a key role in the establishment of order in the universe, just not as directly as Boltzmann imagined

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useful explanation of macro and micro states, entropy quantum

  • different observers assign different value for entropy
  • total amount of information is invariant though
  • the spread of ignorance is reversible (control-not example)
  • spread of ignorance is mutual information

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Halting problem applies to gas of atoms (raytracing too)

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