Programming the Universe
Seth Lloyd
Director, Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, May 15, 2009
10:30 a.m., Green Auditorium
VTC to Boulder will be Room 1107
Courtesy of Boris Kulikov
What is the universe made of? The conventional view states that it is made up of matter and energy, of fields and elementary particles. But there is a more fundamental view: the universe is made up of information, and at the bottom, it is made up of bits. Drawing from recently developed theories of quantum computation, we show how information and information processing form and shape the universe, from its smallest to its largest scales.
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For more information, call Kum J. Ham at 301-975-4203.
Colloquia are videotaped and available in the NIST Research Library.