TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Seth Lloyd 
TI  - Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos 
SN  - 9780099455370
U1  -  	530.12 LIO-P .PS(PH) 
PY  - 2007///
PB  - Vintage
KW  -  	      Quantum theory -- Mathematical models.     Microcomputers -- Programming.     Quantum computers.
N2  - The universe is made of bits of information and it has been known for more than a century that every piece of the the universe - every electron, atom and molecule - registers these bits and that information. It is only in the last years, however, with the discovery and development of quantum computers, that scientists have gained a fundamental understanding of just how that information is registered and processed.  Building on recent breakthroughs in quantum computation, Seth Lloyd shows how the universe itself is a giant computer. Every atom and elementary particle stores these bits, and every collision between those atoms and particles flips the bits into a new arrangement and effortlessly spins out beautiful and complex systems, including galaxies, planets and life itself.  But every computer needs a program, the set of instructions that tell it what patterns to create. Where did the bits come from that tell the universe to create its magnificent complexity? Who - or what - is programming the universe?
ER  -