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Is the Universe its own Largest Computer?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday June 3, 2002 @05:53AM from the where-are-the-mice dept.

missingmatterboy writes: "If the universe is simply a giant calculating machine, how big is it? Seth Lloyd, who two years ago worked out the theoretical maximum possible power a laptop computer could posess, has now "estimated how much information the Universe can contain, and how many calculations it has performed since the Big Bang." His conclusion: you'd need about 10^90 bits, with something like 10^120 manipulations of those bits, to express the universe since time began."

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Video Game Reviews? by FunkSoulBrother · 2002-06-03 06:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Does anyone know of a good site for videogame PC/Console reviews that isn't gamespot.com (subscription) or gamefaqs.com (crappy, 10 year old written reviews)?

Thanks a lot, sorry bout the offtopic.