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Computational Capacity of the Universe
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All physical systems register and process information. The laws of physics determine the amount of information that a physical system can register (number of bits) and the number of elementary logic operations that a system can perform (number of ops). The Universe is a physical system. The amount of information that the Universe can register and the number of elementary operations that it can have performed over its history are calculated. The Universe can have performed ${10}^{120}\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}\mathrm{ops}$ on ${10}^{90}\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}\mathrm{bits}$ ( ${10}^{120}\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}\mathrm{bits}$ including gravitational degrees of freedom).
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- Authors
- Lloyd, S.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lloyd, Seth
- ORCID
- Lloyd, Seth
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2002-05-24
- Volume
- 88
- Issue
- 23
- Pages
- 237901-237901
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W1993466133
- Cited by
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- References
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- FWCI
- 8.07
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- journal article
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- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Keywords
- gravitational degrees of freedom
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