Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloydis a professor of mechanical engineering and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He refers to himself as a "quantum mechanic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
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Since I've been building quantum computers I've come around to thinking about the world in terms of how it processes information.
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The other neat thing about these quantum computers is that they're also storing a bit of information on every available degree of freedom.
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I build quantum computers that store information on individual atoms and then massage the normal interactions between the atoms to make them compute.
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The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.
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What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
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If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.
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I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.
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Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.
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When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.
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So science is basically, at it most fundamental level, a public form of knowledge, a form of knowledge that is in principle accessible to everybody.
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Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.
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Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
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We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.
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This democratization of science, this making it public, is in a sense the realization of a promise that science has held for a long time.