From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Sun Jun 09 2002 - 01:26:44 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury
> Subject: SCIENCE: The Universe as a Computer
> Nature Science Update has this article
> http://www.nature.com/nsu/020527/020527-16.html
> "Universe is a computer", commenting on Seth Lloyd's article
> > Lloyd, S. Computational capacity of the Universe.
> > Physical Review Letters, 88, 237901, (2002).
> (surely a citation error....)
> But seems to point to a variant on this preprint:
> Computational capacity of the universe
> http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/0110141
> which we seem to have missed (slap the ruler on our collective
> pointy hats) since it was submitted last October...
> Interesting that its only now getting spin in conjunction
> with Wolfram's recent book.
> Robert
>From the sound of the 'wired' interview/story,
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/wolfram.html
just about every branch of science is going to have
Wolfram's name spraypainted on it in the coming wave
of cellular automatonisation of the universe. Maybe
it's a singularity sign? who knows......
Speaking of the book. I just ordered it here in .AU
.......... A$163.00 !!!!! by the time the currency conversion
from USD$45 and freight is sorted.....whew! It better be worth it!
It should come with a free full version Mathematica licence.
Colin Hales
*a recently impoverished cellular automaton of the economy*
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