Are we all just part of a computer simulation? Scientists are trying to find that out.

[Ben Davis]

I read a book titled "Programming the Universe," by Seth Lloyd, in which the author argues that the universe itself is a quantum computer.

"The universe is made of bits. Every molecule, atom, and elementary particle registers bits of information. Every interaction between those pieces of the universe processes that information by altering those bits. That is, the universe computes, and because the universe is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics, it computes in an intrinsically quantum-mechanical fashion; its bits are quantum bits. The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is analogous to a quantum computer." (Lloyd, 3)

There. Fixed that for him.