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Is the Universe its own Largest Computer?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Lets hope windows won't be that bloated... by purpledinoz · · Score: 0, Troll

    I bet windows can be bloated enough to suck up that much computing power....

  2. Think again... by coprax · · Score: 0, Troll

    The greatest musicians, most gifted artists, and noted monumental minds in the history of this world have focused their works, attributed their talents, and credited their wisdom to God alone. How is it that we think we are smarter than those who have come before us and foolishly ponder finite material items cabaple of creating, as only God can?